After the spate of blog posts about portrait competitions at the end of April, I started a new information site for portraiture called Portraiture - Resources for Artists. I can't quite work out why it's taken me so long!Drawing a Head - class
pencil and coloured pencils on Saunders Waterford
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
pencil and coloured pencils on Saunders Waterford
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
It's still being developed and new links will be added for the foreseeable future - but now seems a good time to publish its existence.
Click a link to go straight to any of the following topics covered on the site.
I'm particularly keen to create a section about Notable contemporary portrait artists. As there are so many good portrait artists around I have to limit 'Notable' to meaning portrait artists who have won a prize or otherwise had some sort of formal recognition by a national portrait society. Suggestions with hyperlinks please.
Click a link to go straight to any of the following topics covered on the site.
- What is a portrait?
- National Portrait Galleries
- Portrait Societies
- Portrait Exhibitions
- Portraiture
- Portraiture on wikipedia
- Eminent Portrait Artists in the History of Art
- BOOKS: John Singer Sargent - portrait artist
- Portrait Competitions in the UK - BP Portrait Prize
- Portrait Competitions in the UK - Ondaatje Portrait Prize and other RSPP prizes
- Portrait Competitions in the USA
- Notable contemporary portrait artists
- Modern Portraits and Portraiture
- Portrait Collections
- Portraits Online
- BOOKS: Self Portraiture
- Self-Portraiture
- BOOKS: How to draw and paint a portrait
- Portrait Commissions
- Blogging about Portraits and Portraiture
I'm particularly keen to create a section about Notable contemporary portrait artists. As there are so many good portrait artists around I have to limit 'Notable' to meaning portrait artists who have won a prize or otherwise had some sort of formal recognition by a national portrait society. Suggestions with hyperlinks please.
The above drawing is one I did recently in my Drawing a Head class last month. She's looking less finished than usual but I'm on a campaign of avoding overworking at the moment!
I'm now off for a day out in Piccadilly visiting exhibitions and book shops with Robyn (Have Dogs, Will Travel) - with hopefully quite a bit of sketching involved - followed by the Awards Ceremony for the BP Portrait Prize this evening!
Katherine, I have always loved your "drawing a head" sketches. And they have always been good. But recently, well, you have really improved, they are just incredible these days. The "series" is a real testimony to sticking with it and pursuing a subject.
ReplyDeleteI have been doing a lot of looking in your blog lately, so just wanted to hop in and say thank you for all the information that you collect and display.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you and Robyn will have a really fun day. I wonder what Dermott is doing while she is gone.
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