Single Subscription: $75.00

PORTRAIT MODEL ZOOM Session + 30 Minute Pre- or Post Critique/Lesson
We’ve combined a 2-hour PORTRAIT MODEL ZOOM sketch with a half-hour, PRIVATE LESSON on ZOOM
Sketch sessions meet twice weekly with a unique live model PORTRAIT POSE

INCLUDES:

• 1) ZOOM TICKET: Two-hours uninstructed, Live Portrait Model Sketch Session
  Zoom link emailed prior to session for Sunday or Wednesday
  You’ll join a PRIVATE GROUP for the sketch portion, followed by:

• 2) 30-MINUTE PRIVATE LESSON to review and discuss your work
  Topics include: materials selection and handling, surface selection and preparations, techniques, anatomy, costume treatments, backgrounds, etc. EMAIL IMAGES for review: karen.meneghin@gmail.com

• ABOUT PORTRAIT MODEL ZOOM
  SESSIONS meet twice weekly for uninstructed sketching or painting (Sundays, 4-6PM and Wednesdays, 2-4PM) featuring internationally known, professionals who pose regularly for New York art schools and academies (SVA, NYAA, Art Students League and Grand Central Atelier). We collaborate with them on the pose — hair, costume and lighting.
  
  THE MASTER COPYIST

• SINGLE SESSIONS SERIES: $60. Meets for 1-Hour each, TBA
  Working from an art-historical or contemporary portrait reference is an excellent skills-building exercise practiced by students and professionals alike to push their powers of observation and technical expertise.
  Master copies are an excellent practice to explore the artists materials, approach to subject matter and paint handling.
  A “directed study” format on ZOOM, at your own pace and times to be arranged. Suggested 1-2 session per month.

• GETTING STARTED: Selection of subject matter and materials

• REFERENCE RESOURCES: Image quality is important to see as much information as possible.
  Many reference images are available at good resolution, in the public domain or downloadable when used for study purposes at Wiki Commons or The Met Museums WatsOnline. We respect the copyright laws for use of all intellectual property

• PREPARATORY DRAWING: Transfer methods, grids versus projections

• EXECUTION: Depending on your subject and chosen media, periodic check-ins via ZOOM and Mural
  
  MANY MUSEUMS allow sketching or painting in their galleries but have strict rules regarding materials, gallery painting locations and/or works by artists to be copied. Check locally and/or before traveling to visit collections with little known access.
  
  Karen Meneghin was a Met Museum Copyist in 2020, and copied in the traditional manner, “Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau,” (1832 or 1833), an oil landscape on paper in Gallery 803 devoted exclusively to the works of Corot, an immersive experience while painting his work at The Met Museum over a 3-month period.

  Camille Corot’s portraits, while lesser known than his landscapes, were featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery Corot: Women, (September 9 – December 31, 2018). A few of the portraits in Gallery 803 were included in “Corot: Women” at the National Gallery of Art/DC and appear among works representative of his career — from the early plein air works in oil on paper on trips to Italy as well those executed from his home outside Paris, Ville d’Avray, now named the “Ponds of Corot.”

  PORTRAITS: by Camille Corot, c. late 1850s