MADELINE NELSON
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For about a year before the covid lockdown, I was painting "regular people", and those paintings  are in my sitters' possession. I was asking people to sit for me in my studio 2 to 4 times,  2 or 3 hours each time, plus for me to take a few reference photos. In these crazy times, I am open to the idea of painting from photos alone-- ask me.
To have a sense of what I do, here are paintings of people I did in oil at the Art Students League in New York, from professional models, in as little as one 3-hour session and occasionally as many as 10 sessions. 
Much gratitude to these patient, self-disciplined people who model for a living. I am also deeply in debt to my instructors Costa Vavagiakis and Mary Beth McKenzie, as well as Tom Torak and Sherry Camhy, who I studied with earlier.
​Hover over an image to see a caption that includes subject, size, and medium info it. Click the image to see it enlarged.
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