Portraiture Workshop: Capturing a Likeness

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$20 plus admission; $20 for Members.

Join in an artist-led workshop about portraiture with Anita Kunz, whose work is on view in Original Sisters: Portraits of Courage and Tenacity. Learn how to draw a portrait by using a photograph as source material. Participants will be introduced to Kunz’s step-by-step process of careful observation and visual analysis. All drawing skill levels are welcome; art technical guidance will be provided. 

Participants should bring a photograph or other source material that they want to use as the basis of their drawing. Drawing materials will be provided. Class size is limited; please register in advance. 

ANITA KUNZ is an artist and illustrator living in Toronto. Her art has been published widely and shown in galleries and museums all over the world. She has also been featured regularly in Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine, and she has done work for Sony Music. Kunz has also illustrated more than fifty book covers. From 1988 to 1990 she was one of two artists chosen by Rolling Stone to produce a monthly illustrated history of rock ’n’ roll endpaper. In 2017, she was inducted into the Society of Illustrators’ Museum of American Illustration Hall of Fame.

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