Charcoal and Pencil Portrait Drawing with Lisa Sawlit - 6-Week Session

The Museum School at the Cape Cod Museum of Art presents:

Charcoal and Pencil Portrait Drawing with Lisa Sawlit

(6) Thursdays, January 9 - February 13, from 10:00- 12:30 pm.

Member $225 / Non-Member $250, model fee included

Learn to draw the human face with master portraitist Lisa Sawlit. This course focuses on how to sketch subtle light effects and facial details from a live model. In-class demonstrations also provide individual technical support to all attending.

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Lisa Sawlit was born in Massachusetts where she received her BFA and MFA from Tufts University in painting. After a sterling career in publishing, Sawlit focused her energies on classical painting and drawing. She taught these disciplines at Montserrat College of Art from 1998-2014. Sawlit’s book, “Drawing the Cast, A Return to Knowledge, Wisdom and Beauty”, foreword by Juliette Aristides and preface by Graydon Parrish was published in 2008. In 2010 Sawlit presented her six-foot portrait of The 14th Dalai Lama to him, Tibet's Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay and others at The Kurakula Center, Medford, MA. In 2013 Sawlit installed a portrait studio contextualized within the Russian Royal Portraiture Hall and drew live at the Fabergé Revealed Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum. She received a 2014 Muse Award from the American Alliance of Museums for her painting and animation featured in the Impressionist on the Water Exhibition also at the PEM. She interviewed on NPR in 2015. From 2017-2020 Sawlit taught old master drawing directly from the collection at the MFA, Boston. Currently she is working on old master replica commissions and painting from nature. Her most recent replicas, “Head of a Bear”, in petite silver point and “Salvator Mundi”, in oil on walnut panel, both from the original portfolio of Leonardo daVinci, are held in private collections. Sawlit continues to live and works by the ocean enjoying what she calls the three requirements of a successful artistic life: Light, Space and Freedom.

Supply list for drawing.

• Graphite pencils in different grades, 2H, HB, 2B, 4B, and 6B.

• Charcoal pencils, xtra soft, soft, and hard.

• Vine charcoal.

• Kneaded and vinyl erasers (both).

• A pad of 11”x14” drawing paper or larger.

• An Xacto knife with a fresh blade.

• A piece a shammy cloth (natural leather chamois).

• Soft clean white cotton rags (not paper towels).

• A clear 18” ruler.

• A wooden teriyaki skewer.

• A filbert brush, 1/3”-1/2” width or larger, stiff.

Cancellation policy: CCMoA must be notified 1 week prior for refund.