Articles on Realism Today
I have a couple articles on Realism Today's site.
Portraits in PanPastel - Zoom Recording
The recording of my Portraits in PanPastel workshop with the Red Rock Pastel Society of Nevada is available for purchase on their website.
Portraits need to feel alive. The duty of an artist is to not only capture the likeness of the subject but also to breathe life onto the page by capturing the moment. When your formal portraits feel dead and stodgy you need to break out and rediscover the joy in sketching: there you will find the immediacy of the pastel medium. Using PanPastels and Sofft tools Corey Pitkin will guide students through his methods for using PanPastel as a sketching tool.
You will be watching and hopefully working with 2 provided photo references: high and low contrast.
The Nude - Zoom Recording
The recording of my workshop The Nude with the Red Rock Pastel Society of Nevada is available for purchase on their website.
In this unique video course, Corey Pitkin PSA, IAPS-MC will demonstrate his methods for quickly and decisively capturing the grace and beauty of the nude figure as he works with a live model in his studio in Hudson Falls, NY.
Topics will include how to light the figure, natural vs artificial lighting, posing the model, anatomy vs form, and much more. A live feed of the model is streamed alongside the demonstration so students can paint along. Corey will be working on Canson Touch Tobacco color and using a full-color palette.