Cornelia Hernes Artwork

Welcome to this Patreon page! This is a place of place for learning about representational drawing and painting techniques. After many years teaching art in a academic system, I am now bringing my experience as a professional artist and instructor directly to you online. The aspirations for this page is to be a place for education and inspiration!  Why should you become a patron? The videos that are available on this page are both for art appreciators and for aspiring artists. Each video demonstrates the stages of the painting process and the key concepts to building a successful artwork. <ul><li>You will be able to watch me work with oil paint on various different substrates such as linen, gessoed panel and copper panel.</li></ul><ul><li>The tutorials are mostly focused on the portrait and how to translate the arrangement of shadow and light as well as gesture and proportion. We will employ academic techniques and visual concepts to apply to our artistic vision and expression. Occasionally other genres will be explored, such as still life, master studies and compositions with interiors. </li></ul> For an overview of how Patreon works in general, they’ve got a great primer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwvUjAv6pxg">HERE</a> to explain how it works. How often do patrons get charged?
 
Once per month. If you 
sign up at the $10 level, independent of how many posts that are released, you will only ever 
be charged $10 per month. The charge will incur once signing up followed by the 1st. of the month.  A bit about me: I was born in Norway and since childhood, drawing offered a world with infinite possibilities and creative joy for me. From the onset of my oil painting pursuits in my late teens, I was particularly interested in rendering the human form and emotive expressions through portraiture and mythological motifs. During my training at The Florence Academy of Art, I further developed a deep affection for the genres of still life, interiors and nature motifs. After teaching in the academic model for over 10 years, I am now dedicated to sharing my knowledge and experience as an artist online. After many years living and working abroad (Canada, Italy, Sweden and the US) I now reside in the Norwegian countryside  side with my husband, Stephen Bauman, who is also a Patreon creator, artist and instructor. Again, welcome to my page and hope you will enjoy all of the content on this page!

Free

Access to portrait painting videos that show my process of blocking-in a painting.   This involves establishing the shadow and light, organizing the halftones, and working  up the underlying structure and planes of the head.

Entry Level

Access to rewards from Entry Level tier.
 
Access to portrait painting videos that show my process of finishing a painting.  This involves refining the shadow shapes and light shape, resolving the  planes of the individual features (eyes, nose, mouth), and softening  edges and working with the big impression.

Advanced Level

Each month patrons at the Mentorship Level will email me up to three images of paintings that they have been working on. After I have reviewed the images we will have a 25 minute critique session via Skype or Zoom. During this session we will discuss:<ul><li>Practical solutions to some of the challenges you are facing in the composition.</li><li>Use of values, edges, and line quality.</li><li>Facial structure and symmetry.</li><li>Overall design/conception of the portrait.</li><li>Unity and light effect.</li></ul>Sessions are typically scheduled on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. Scheduling will take place on an individual basis.

Mentorship Tier: 1 on 1 Critiques

Each month patrons at the Mentorship Level will email me up to three images of paintings that they have been working on. After I have reviewed the images we will have 1 hour critique session via Skype or Zoom. During this session we will discuss:<ul><li>Practical solutions to some of the challenges you are facing in the composition.</li><li>Use of values, edges, and line quality.</li><li>Facial structure and symmetry.</li><li>Overall design/conception of the portrait.</li><li>Unity and light effect.</li></ul>Sessions are typically scheduled on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. Scheduling will take place on an individual basis.

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