hollypaino

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City: Adelanto
Country: United States

Joined: Jul 2009

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I’ve been drawing as long as I can remember, and have had the good fortune of many mentors in different fields of art, including airbrush, pencil, oils, and sculpture. Drawing is a stress reliever, an outlet that brings me peace. Graphite pencils are my main love, but I’m slowly transitioning to watercolors and other non b/w media. I have worked with portraits in the last few years, and have three wonderful references that would work well for any artist considering this genre: ‘Drawing a Likeness’ by Douglas R. Graves (best reference for using different paper media), ‘Drawing the Human Head’ by Burne Hogarth (best reference for structure, anatomy, movement and facial features), and ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’ by Betty Edwards (you have to try the ‘drawing upside-down’ exercise…it works, and very well). I particularly like the Dutch Golden Age painters (van Goyen, van Rijn, van Ostade – ‘Resting Travelers’ is superb) and their use of dramatic light, and think that Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ is the pinnacle of portraiture – pure genius.
Check out Daniel Greene’s or Igor Babailov’s work – they are the masters of the portrait genre.
For some strange alternate personality reason, I also do mural work, and really enjoy using spray paint (but only on my walls, no worries :)