October 24, 2012

Charlotte Warr Andersen, author of Faces and Places – Images in Applique and Focus on Features – Life-like Portrayals in Appliqué, is here this week teaching a 5-day workshop on her methods.

Charlotte has the group doing drawing and sketching exercises to learn how to create realistic facial expressions. Light boxes are being used to trace the main lines of the image, but then further refinements are made as the fabric pieces are cut and appliquéd.

This is the start of a portrait of one of the student’s daughter, who is posed in her ballet outfit with her back to the camera.

Linda is working on a portrait of her granddaughter in a lovely patriotic outfit.

This the portrait that Cindy B is working on. Great expression in those eyes.

I’ll take more photos on the final day so that you can see the progress. Everyone is loving the class and Charlotte!