Author Archives: Lisa Johnston Hancock

Here is my finished portrait for the People’s Portrait Project at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. The submission date is May 25, 2012 and you can submit as many as you want! Get to work! http://visarts.org/special-events-2 He would only sit for 5 minutes total so most of the drawing came from a photographic reference. IfContinue reading “People’s Portrait Project”

I had the pleasure of working with some dedicated students (at three different schools) this semester and I thought that I would share some of the projects that they completed. For the project below, the students were asked to depict an interior space that they see on a daily basis, using linear perspective. The studentsContinue reading “A Great Spring Semester”

The Visual Arts Center of Richmond is calling for submissions to the People’s Portrait Project. “It is a celebration of art-making and people. It’s a community art project that reflects the many colors, shapes and personalities of our neighborhood.” Anyone who loves art and community can submit. Note that the work must be 5″ xContinue reading “The People’s Portrait Project”

This week, we began figure drawing in my Drawing 2 course. Last night we had a great model with a very interesting tattoo. I completed a 30 minute drawing while the students were working. I don’t usually draw tattoos when observing the figure but hers was worth capturing. I walked around the room to checkContinue reading “Life Drawing”

I found some images from my photography portfolio created during my senior year of college at the University of Alabama. It is hard to believe how much photography has changed in ten years. These were all printed in the darkroom without any photo manipulation!

This painting was created during a time of research and discovery for me, also known as graduate school. I was introduce to techniques used by Old Masters such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens and contemporary artists such as Odd Nerdrum, Andrew Wyeth, Steven Assael and Susan Hauptman. In this post, IContinue reading “Seeing The Light”

This is an image of a mixed media painting that I created in my art journal. I prepared my surface with green acrylic paint long before I knew what I wanted to draw. Doing this ahead of time allowed me to have a fresh green surface to work on, when the need arose. This skullContinue reading “A la Georgia O’keefe”

Today’s Figure Study Charcoal, 18″ x 24″ 20 minutes Conte Crayon on Paper 18″ x 24″ For the drawing above, I toned the paper first before sketching the figure. Then I took out the lightest values with my kneaded eraser and added darker values where appropriate. Conte Crayon on Paper 18″ x 24″

I went to the Open Figure Drawing session at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond today. A local artist, David Tanner, started a Thursday group from 1:00 – 3:30 pm. We began with 10, 1 minute gestural poses then 3, 20 minute poses and one final 30 minute pose. The drawing above was my firstContinue reading “Thursday Figure Session”

The ]Open[ Figure Drawing Show, featuring artworks created during the open figure drawing sessions at the visual arts center takes place this month from September 2 – 30. The opening reception is today September 9, 2011 at the Visual Arts Center in the Dominion Room on the second floor of the Center. I have threeContinue reading “]Open[ Figure Show”