Delacroix Mastercopy: An online portrait drawing session

Lydia Cecil

Lydia Cecil creates a mastercopy of Eugène Delacroix’s portrait of Frédéric Chopin, using chalk and charcoal on tan-toned paper. As she works, she discusses Delacroix’s life and career, highlighting his bold use of colour, dynamic compositions, and central role in the Romantic movement. She also reflects on how his energetic brushwork and focus on emotion influenced generations of artists, from the Impressionists to the Symbolists, shaping the direction of modern European art.
This video is only available to subscribers. Please purchase a subscription or log in to your account
Enjoyed this video? You might like these too:
In this week's session, join Lydia Cecil as she draws a figure of model John, showing how to approach the body by identifying masses while paying attention to lost and found contours. Using chalk and charcoal on toned paper, ...
In this hour-long figure drawing session, Lydia Cecil takes us through 3 x 20min poses of model Jason. Try multiple poses on top of each other to see how the figure changes - particularly focusing on orientation of three ...
Lydia Cecil is looking at LIGHTS ONLY in this figure drawing session. Using chalk on toned paper, with poses by model Steven.
Subscribe to our mailing list and we’ll keep you informed about upcoming online sessions, workshops and events. Plus we’ll give you access to SEVEN of our previous sessions, and a voucher worth $6.50 for a future session, all for FREE
We won’t sell or share your data and you can unsubscribe at any time. You can see our privacy policy here

We use essential cookies so the site works, and tracking cookies to understand how people use it. Some of the latter are provided by third parties. See our privacy policy for more info.