Portrait Society of America Conference 2015: Multi-Figure Portraits and Figurative

On Friday afternoon, the conference attendees split up into breakout sessions. I attended a lecture on multi-figure portraits and paintings with Jennifer Welty and Alexandra Tyng.

Highlights of the talk included slide shows of great paintings, a video with compositional ideas, tips on not making the head too big, dealing with incalcitrant children to get the expression you want, moving heads around on different bodies in photoshop and making sure to photograph all your subjects with the same direction of light.

Jennifer Welty and Alexandra Tyng

Portrait Society of America Conference 2015 Face-Off Paintings

The Face-Off paintings that were created last night in a little more than 2 hours went on display this morning. I was able to get a shot of each of them, slightly cropped in some cases. 

I will try to get all the correct names with each painting tomorrow, so stay tuned. Enjoy!

Michelle Dunaway

Quang Ho

Bart Lindstrom

David Kassan

Chris Saper

Jennifer Welty

Alexandra Tyng

Kate Stone

Portrait Society of America Conference 2015 Atlanta: Face-Off

I am very excited and grateful to be attending "The Art of the Portrait" conference (organized by The Portrait Society of America) in Atlanta this weekend. The proceedings started off with a bang, with what has become an annual ritual - the "Face-Off" model painting event.

Judith Carducci chose to work with pastels

The room was packed with hundreds of artists, who observed a number of their colleagues painting costumed models. It was amazing to see the beautiful work produced in just a few hours by these talented artists.

Alexandra Tyng captures her model

The painting (in progress) on the right belongs to Michelle Dunaway

Quang Ho