Mastercopy of Castiglione: An online portrait drawing session
Lydia Cecil
Join Lydia for this 1- hour master copy session, recreating Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s presumed self-portrait etching. Starting with a light pencil block-in, you’ll use an ink pen and layered hatching to build form, light and texture while exploring Castiglione’s expressive approach to edges and mark-making.Materials used: Pencil, ink pen and paper.
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Join Lydia for this 1- hour master copy session, recreating a charcoal study of a horse’s head by Lucy Kemp-Welch. You’ll block in the main forms, build soft shadows and halftones, and explore sharp and lost edges while ...
For this week’s 1-hour figure session, Lydia explores drawing the lights through a pose with model Nikoletta. The focus is on simplifying the figure and white clothing into clear shapes, using the toned paper as shadow while ...
Join Lydia for this 1- hour master copy session exploring Sorolla’s Contadina de Assisi (1888), focusing on a clothed figure and the play of light and shadow.
Materials used: Chalk and charcoal on toned paper.
