Two-Day Portraiture Workshop with Edgar Jerins: SESSION ONE Dates Monday, July 13 + Tuesday, July 14 Time 9:00am – 12:00pm
Fee $60 for two-day session Join us for a portrait workshop, taught by award winning portrait artist Edgar Jerins. This two-day workshop, now being offered with a morning or afternoon session, will focus on capturing a likeness by understanding the proper placement of features, likeness and shading. Day one will include an artist demonstration on the proportions of the face, along with light, shadow, and life drawing skills. Day two will focus on artists refining their drawings, rendering hair, and adding color if they choose. Material of choice is welcome; drawing is preferred. All skill levels welcome, from beginner to advanced. Bring your own art supplies. BIO Edgar Jerins began his training as an artist at age 14. By 18 he won a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. At the time of his graduation in 1980, Jerins had won several of the school’s awards. That same year, he won the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, an international award for Realist artists. The grant enabled Jerins to travel to Los Angeles where he continued to perfect his exacting realism, often as portraits in oil pastel. Edgar Jerins looks deep into the struggling souls of troubled people; he lays bare their uneasy relationships and harnesses their despair into sublime works of art. The subjects of Edgar Jerins’ monumental charcoal drawings, some over eight feet in width, are often his friends and relatives—people whose lives touch the artist directly.
