Sarah Parks works out of her studio in Virginia. When creating a portrait, Sarah Parks starts by painting a quick sketch from observation. After the sketch, she photographs the subject in different poses and lighting, to “explore pose, expression, styling, and background.”
From Artist Statement: “When painting a portrait, I enjoy the challenge of capturing the personality and likeness of a subject because that portrait will be a family treasure to be handed down from generation to generation. But whether it is a portrait, figurative, still life, or landscape, my aspiration is to capture the perfect play of light, shadow, and color, enhancing the spirit and composition of my painting.” (sarahparksartist.com)
I found this quote in Sarah Parks’ blog, “Drawing isn't so much what your hand does, but what your eyes look at, focus on, concentrate on before you ever pick up a pencil. What makes an artist is the ability to SEE! And when we look at anything in life we see three things, values (lights and darks or shading), proportion, and perspective.” (http://sarahparksartist.com/blog/21030/drawing-techniques-1)
Learning to actually look at the image and draw what I truly see is definitely something that I can work on. One issue I have with drawing portraits from a photo is that I do not really look at what is in the image. I only see part of what is there. I have been working on sections of portraits and drawing portraits upside down, because it forces me to pay more attention to what the image realistically looks like.
http://sarahparksartist.com/
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