Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
Promoting Yourself and Your Work
A course by Jane French , Painter
About the video: Promoting Yourself and Your Work
Overview
“To end this unit, I will talk about how to promote yourself as an artist and how to find different ways to promote your artwork. ”
In this video lesson Jane French addresses the topic: Promoting Yourself and Your Work, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade. Experiment with light, color, composition, and mark-making to illustrate the features and expressions of a subject in a way that captures their story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Promoting Yourself and Your Work In this lesson, I'll share my experiences and advice on the best ways to promote yourself as an artist. This can either be in a professional capacity or just to get involved in your local art scene. There are also often local art competitions organised by societies or galleries, so being more involved in your local art scene is just a nice way to get more involved and to maybe get a bit of recognition but also just to meet like-minded people. It's also really useful to just boost your self-esteem, but also, you can get more involved. Maybe try finding out if...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
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Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting
Jane French
A course by Jane French
Jane French is a painter from the South of England. She grew up in a family of creatives with two siblings who are also artists. As a child, she was always interested in drawing and painting and was encouraged by teachers at school to pursue her passion. She went on to specialize in painting at Newcastle University and, after graduating, worked at a design company before completing a postgraduate degree in information design. Years later, she returned to her artistic roots, painting commissioned portraits for Mark Gatiss and BBC Radio’s Ben Jackson among others.
Jane has run workshops and taught at schools and universities, including the Attenborough Arts Center. She has won numerous awards, had her work featured in exhibitions, and was selected to appear in Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year. Jane also contributed to a book published by Bloomsbury Publishing to honor the heroes of the NHS.
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