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Today we learned how to make life masks! Seth Baldwin came up from Philadelphia and generously walked us through the process step-by-step. By the end of the day we were mixing, layering and making our own molds!
Tracy Banaszynski was our first victim – er, brave volunteer.
With Seth’s help, we ambitiously tried making an open-mouthed expression of Chad Fisher, including his neck and part of his shoulders and upper chest.
As long as our awesome models make the trek uptown and we shovel the snow off our skylights every 5 minute break, we continue plowing (pun intended) on through this blizzard. Stay warm!
Here are some of our in-progress student works (compositional studies, posters, drawings, paintings, etc) of the drapery set-ups from this year. We’ll have more drapery studies and other student work up on the Janus website soon.
Here are some images of the drapery class we had with Michael Grimaldi.
Drapery Study Demo, Michael Grimaldi
Drapery Study Demo, close-up
To follow-up Dan’s structural discussions on the skull and to complement the portraits we have been working on during our sculpture weeks with Steve Perkins, Dan did a drawing demo of Sesame’s portrait today!
Portrait Demo of Sesame, Dan Thompson
Fridays are portrait days with Kate where we focus on color via an oil sketch after a quick block-in. Kate shows us how it’s done…
Portrait Sketch, Kate Lehman
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