Application deadline: 17th of October, at 4 pm.
Day 1: Using graphite and polychromo colour pencils, observation from life will be from loose light tones to darker shadows, and finishing details using line and crosshatching.
Day 2: Using a toned charcoal ground, the figure will be made to emerge by rubbing back to halftones and highlights, with the white of the paper being the brightest value. Along the way, willow charcoal and charcoal pencils can help readjust the range of tones, details and shadows in the process.
Artist Bio:
James Hanley was born in Dublin in 1965. He is a graduate of UCD and NCAD, and spent an influential Erasmus exchange at the Glasgow School of Art in 1990. An established portrait painter, Hanley has painted over 200 official and private portraits, and is represented in many public, corporate and private collections. Elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2000, he became a member of Aosdána in 2008. James Hanley works in a representational style in both drawing and painting, has exhibited widely in group shows in Ireland and internationally, and has had 13 solo exhibitions to date.
