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Develop your ability to create painterly portraits that highlight the model’s features and personality by learning anatomy, proportion, and color-mixing.
Lessons and demonstrations will be conducted in oil and acrylic. Students will work in a painting medium of their choice and through careful observation of one pose sustained over the course of the class they will learn how to interrupt proportions and views of the head to capture frontal, side or three-quarter views. Study from live models in real time via online video conferencing.
Programs taking place online:An access link will be emailed to you after purchase.
Programs taking place in our NYC facilities:Please read our safety guidelines before visiting our building.
Programs taking place online and in our NYC facilities:Please select which experience you wish to participate in when registering. Online participants will be emailed an access link after purchase. In-person participants should read our safety guidelines before attending the program.
While attending the Universtiy of Massachusetts, Nancy Johnson was awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation for her outstanding undergraduate work and a Strathmore Paper Award for her excellence in drawing. After receiving her MFA degree Nancy taught painting and drawing at several institutions including Mount Wachusett Community College, Westfield State College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts Nancy participated in launching the first Summer Abroad Program in La Napoule, France and Brugge, Belgium where she and her colleagues ...
While attending the Universtiy of Massachusetts, Nancy Johnson was awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation for her outstanding undergraduate work and a Strathmore Paper Award for her excellence in drawing. After receiving her MFA degree Nancy taught painting and drawing at several institutions including Mount Wachusett Community College, Westfield State College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts Nancy participated in launching the first Summer Abroad Program in La Napoule, France and Brugge, Belgium where she and her colleagues instructed a group of 35 BFA students in painting and drawing.
Nancy’s work ranges from paintings of the still life, and portrait to works based in the abstract expressionist tradition. Her work has been exhibited in Maine, Massachusetts and New York. Nancy is currently represented at the 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
Mixed-Media Portrait Painting Techniques (Intermediate/Advanced)
Portrait Drawing: Black & White to Color
Figure and Portrait Drawing Combined
Colored Pencils (Intermediate/Advanced)
Figure Drawing
Portrait Drawing