Portrait Workshop with Mellen Burns
A full-day photography and mixed-media workshop.
In the morning, participants learn some simple approaches to portrait photography, including lighting, backgrounds, composition and how different choices can change a portrait. Everyone works together to photograph and be photographed, experimenting with different ways of representing themselves.
We then break for lunch while a selection of the photographs are printed.
In the afternoon, everyone works back into their printed portraits using paint, drawing, collage, cutting, tearing, text and other art materials. The idea is to treat the photograph as a starting point rather than a finished object and spend the afternoon experimenting with it.
Participants leave with their photographs and the works they’ve created during the day.
All materials provided.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮.