Adult Illustration Workshop with Artist Brian Tornell

BASIC DRAWING SESSION:

In this session, Tornell will illustrate and work individually
with the student/artist, covering One Point Perspective, sketching techniques and shading.  By its end, each participant will have a sense of confidence in abilities they may not have thought they possessed.  It's fun, its
life, and it's the foundation of every good painting regardless of the medium(s). Let's go!! 

Cost of workshop is $40.00 and materials will be provided. Space is limited, reservations in advance is a must. Please call The Art Rooms at 410-939-6424

Brian Tornell is a watercolorist whose works are primarily representational.  His approach reveals a detailed preoccupation with the artifacts of the human experience
some of which are isolated from their context and forced to account for themselves on their own merits, not as static but rather kinetic entities. With each painting (perhaps one out of fifteen careful considerations) is a moment in time, a “snap shot” of our memory; a ball and jacks at mid-play; an old sink that time has scarred; a scuffed
baseball and blue jeans – remnants of an afternoon outing.  Tornell’s watercolors could be described as
the graphic equivalent of the selective process of memory as it distills certain images which, when torn from life’s flow, remain ever crisp and vivid.

Penelope Bass Cope, art critic for the Gannett Papers, described Tornell’s work this way:

“He makes watercolor paintings of everyday objects in all their tattiness.  He depicts each object alone, close-up, against the vast whiteness of the paper.  But this mptiness is not dead-rather he activates it by balanced placement of each subject on the page.”

A native of New York, he has worked as a commercial artist and with the late C.B. Tornell, Supervisor of the Department of Arts and Exhibition at the American
Museum of Natural History, constructing dioramas as well as scale models for television employing both realism and detail.

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