Press Release
NEWS
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Bobbi Baldwin - Baldwin Fine Art
7850 Winding Way, Fair Oaks, CA 95628
916 505-8253
31 PORTRAITS IN 31 DAYS PROJECT
Local artist has accepted the challenge of painting a
portrait from life every day for 31 days for the month of August to bring
awareness to the value of original hand painted portraits.
Sacramento August 24, 2015 - As this month has been progressing
Sacramento’s very own artist, Bobbi Baldwin, has been painting one oil portrait
per day of local Sacramento people, from life, and will create 31 in all,
throughout the month of August.
Bobbi Baldwin celebrates 30 years of teaching fine art
portraits to adults throughout the Sacramento Area and around the USA.
Baldwin says, “You can take a picture with your phone. Then you see what the
camera sees, nothing more, and nothing less. A portrait painting is the
artist's interpretation of the whole person, the character … done stroke by
stroke with a bunch of hairs attached to the end of a stick." In
order to create a really beautiful portrait an artist needs to get to know
their subjects well. The first step is
this type of quick study. Baldwin said these quick studies are very
challenging as they are done in hours rather than the month it usually takes for
the artist to get the whole person’s character and personality.
The study work that is produced during this month will be
featured in her book coming out in December of 2015. The study work that
is produced during this month will also be unveiled at a reception gala event
at the end of September in Lodi at the Watt’s Upstream
Winery.
Closer: Bobbi Baldwin, a 50 year resident of
Sacramento Valley, teaches for the Crocker Art Museum as well as many other
locations. She is a founding member of the Portrait Society of America
and has studied with some of America’s finest portrait artist throughout her 33
years of painting and teaching. Bobbi has a real passion for teaching
budding and experienced artists.
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