Elizabeth Thompson Butler mastercopy: An online figure drawing session
Lydia Cecil
Join Lydia Cecil as she recreates *Start of the Charge* by Elizabeth Thompson Butler, using simple charcoal pencil on white paper to study the artist’s dynamic approach to movement and composition. As she works, Lydia will delve into Butler’s life and career, exploring how her military paintings challenged conventions and earned her recognition in the 19th-century art world.
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In this session, Lydia Cecil draws two 30-minute figure studies of model Daniel, focusing on similar balancing back poses and how to capture the overall forms of the body. Using charcoal on white paper, she works broadly to ...
Join Lydia Cecil as she creates a mastercopy of *Sharecropper* (1952) by Elizabeth Catlett, exploring the powerful lines and composition of this iconic portrait. Working in charcoal pencil on white paper, she reflects on ...
In this week's 1-hour figure drawing session, Lydia Cecil will be doing the structured drawing using boxes and construction to achieve a solid figure. The focus will be on the anatomy of the torso especially the ribcage and ...
