Culture Night at the United Art Club

Young Sam Lynch will be playing piano while Brian Gallagher and PJ Lynch  are drawing portraits on Culture Night at the United Arts Club in Dublin!

Sam has just learned "Naval" by Yann Tiersen for the occasion.

I hope lots of you can come along for Sam's first gig.

A Great Portraiture Workshop

There was a great atmosphere at my workshop on Saturday.

Our model, Michael, has a very characterful face and very striking colouring. 

He brought out the best in all of the artists there on the day.

My next portrait workshop at Kennedy Art will be on the 4th of July, but I am doing one at the lovely Corn Loft Centre in Wexford before that on 20th June.
I look forward to painting with some of you soon.

A Portrait with Dramatic Lighting

I was delighted to be able to spend three hours working on this portrait of Tony. We had a nicely dramatic low light source and Tony held his pose wonderfully.

The Finished Painting

Even as I was painting, though, I knew I hadn't gone dark enough with the left side of the face. 

When this happens, I tend to paint away to a finish from the model (second last picture above) and then a couple of days later add a dark glaze over the area where the darker tone should have been. 

Here I used liquin tinted with burnt umber and alizarin crimson. The good thing about this process is that it saves all the modulation in the initial painting but just darkens the area by a few degrees giving the painting a much more palbable sense of drama.

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A Portrait Sketch of Martin

Here's my 40 minute demo from a recent workshop at Kennedy Art.
Martin, the model, always likes a challenging pose and he held this difficult twisty one really well throughout the day.

Contact Kennedy's for more details re my workshops.

Tel: +353 1 475 1749
Fax: +353 1 478 2022
Email: info[at]kennedyart.com

Culture Night at the United Arts Club

A team of quick-on-the-draw United Arts Club regulars will be in action this Culture Night for a "Portrait Drawing - Face Off".
Grab a glass of wine and watch the group drawing some of the UAC’s best known characters live!

I will be one of the artists along with my pals Brian Gallagher, David Hayes, Comghall Casey, Michael Mc Williams and John O Flynn.
I'll be there from about 6.30pm.

Friday September 19th
The United Arts Club
3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street
Dublin 2

Latest Portrait Sketch Workshops

After "Draw In" I'm very much looking forward to keeping up the momentum on Saturday at my portrait workshop at Kennedy Art. 
Aíne will be the model. Here's a study I did of her a while back.
It's unfinished because of changing light but I think it's all the better for that.

Saturday's workshop, and the one in October are both booked up and with waiting lists for cancellations, but we have just set the 1st November for the next workshop after that.
I hope to see some of you then.
PJ

KennedyArt
12 Harcourt St
Dublin 2
ph 353 (1) 475 1749

Naked Portrait of Darren: Process Pix

Some process pix of a life painting I did of Darren.
The technique I use at my workshops is a simplified version of this.

 My portrait sketch workshop in September at Kennedy Art has been set for Saturday the 6th.
I look forward to seeing some of you then.
info@kennedyart.com
ph + 353 (1) 475 1749

Another Great Workshop

We had another lovely workshop painting the portrait sketch at Kennedy Art on Saturday. Brian was a great model, and everyone worked hard, had fun and got great results.

My demo painting is at the bottom.

The Portrait Sketch from Life...My Palette

Here's a nice tidy photo showing the palette I use for most of my portrait sketch workshops. 

There is one tomorrow, July 5th, at Kennedy Art in Dublin, and I am very much looking forward to it.

Upcoming Workshops

Here's a painting of Tony from one of my portrait sketch workshops. I tidied it up a wee bit afterwards.
My upcoming workshops at Kennedy Art are at on July 5th and August 2nd.
info@kennedyart.com
ph + 353 (1) 475 1749

And I will also be doing demos and workshops at "Draw In" organized by my friend Julie Douglas which takes place in my home town of Belfast from 25th August  to 5th September 2014.

The Portrait Sketch from Life

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's workshop at KennedyArt.

I do spend a lot of time reciting the same few principles, so I thought I would put down the basics of my technique in the form of a print-out. The painting I did of Andy seemed like a good one for the purpose.

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Process Photos of the Andy Painting

 I took a series of photos during the process of painting Andy.