Luana
Luconi
Winner
Luana is our featured artist for the month of May!!
On Saturday, May 17, 2025 from 10:00am-12:00pm EDT Luana will be demonstrating:
©How Would Sargent Paint Them? by ©Luana Luconi Winner
90 minute program
Portrait artist, master pastelist, and favored instructor Luana Luconi Winner will present an active program inspired by the 2023-24 “Fashioned by Sargent” exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of Boston and at the Tate in London. The exhibit of 60 Sargent portraits curated from public and private collections worldwide also included some of the costumes and clothing worn by the subjects in his paintings.
After a short history of Sargent’s family, youth, and education living in Europe, she will then focus on Sargent’s extraordinary handling of skin tones. Luana will explain the very specific differences in how Sargent depicted the blue bloods of Europe, the creamy debutants of the United States, and the country people in the small villages he visited on his travels.
Luana will show how some of his favorite subjects might have been created in pastels with five different skin tones in her miniature copies of Sargent’s portraits. Following this will be a short pastel portrait demonstration, copying the head only from Sargent’s portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect of more than 100 public parks in the US from Central Park in New York to the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC.
Luana Luconi Winner is a founding member of the Portrait Society of America, a Juried Member of the Portrait Society of Atlanta, an elected Master Circle member of the International Association of Pastel Societies, a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, Signature Member, past president, and honorary lifetime member of the Pastel Society of North Carolina, Master of Pastel with the Southeastern Pastel Society, North Carolina Ambassador for the Portrait Society of America, and an active member of several other art boards and national art organizations.
Please be sure to join us for this outstanding presentation by Luana!!
