Join Yvette Coppersmith for a virtual art workshop hosted by National Portrait Gallery.
Photo: Matthew Stanton, Jessica Grilli.
Did someone say, ‘art workshop with an Archibald winner?!’ Woo! Join Yvette Coppersmith from wherever you are for a drawing session using a range of works from the collection.
To start, you’ll ease into the session with a mindfulness exercise and some stretches before kicking things off. Next, we’ll warm up your art-muscles with some rapid sketches and break down portrait structure into simplified shapes. Then we’ll get into the meaty section where you’ll be exploring facial shapes and angles, and balancing analytical drawing with the freedom of mark making.
Beginners to advanced welcome. Have your drawing tools ready!
Yvette Coppersmith is a Melbourne-based painter whose practice spans portraiture, still life and abstraction. In 2018 she was the 10th woman to win the Archibald Prize with, Self Portrait, after George Lambert. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001, she has exhibited across Australia and internationally; been included in the Foxtel Arts’ documentary, ‘The Archibald’; and her upcoming solo show Carnelian at the Jewish Museum is their inaugural contemporary commission and will accompany a Marc Chagall exhibition.
The details
What: Draw collection portraits with Yvette Coppersmith
When: Saturday 22 July, 2 pm to 3 pm
Where: Online via Zoom.
Cost: Free. Bookings essential via National Portrait Gallery
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