by houstonwine | Dec 15, 2011 | Drawings
Mary drew this sketch at a workshop taught by Tony Ryder in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2007. The sketch was meant to be an under-painting for an oil portrait. The model decided, on an impulse, to wrap a scarf around her head which led Mary to give her sketch the title...
by houstonwine | Dec 15, 2011 | Drawings
Mary attended a J.D. Hillberry workshop in Denver where she learned to draw realistic pencil and charcoal drawings of older people with wrinkled skin. She learned that an artist needs a keen understanding of the way that light bends around the curves and wrinkles of...
by houstonwine | Dec 14, 2011 | Paintings, People
Mary is fascinated by the techniques used by Renaissance portrait painters. In this work, she practiced the techniques of Raffaello Sanzio who is popularly known by the name Raphael. Raphael painted his portrait of his friend Baldassare Castiglione in 1514. ...
by houstonwine | Dec 9, 2011 | Paintings, People
Mary admires the Dutch Masters and their use of light. She practiced Johannes Vermeer’s painting techniques in this 2011 painting that she completed in her studio in Colorado. Like the Dutch Masters, she used 12 layers of paint and worked from the dark...
