Margaret Baumgaertner
Bio
Margaret Carter Baumgaertner’s notable commissions have included governors, congressman, chief executive officers, actors, physicians, and families.
Baumgaertner has a strong feeling for the traditions of portraiture and takes inspiration from the many American (Sargent, Decamp), European (Romney, Raeburn) and Russian (Kromskoy, Repin) Masters. Fine portraiture, she believes, “transcends contemporary elements and projects a timeless quality”. Baumgaertner majored in medical illustration and microbiology and worked eight years as a freelance medical illustrator before beginning her career in portraiture. She studied at Atelier Lack and the Cape School (Provincetown, Massachusetts) as well as with Cedric Egeli, John Howard Sanden, Richard Whitney and Daniel Greene. She is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists and is represented by Portrait Brokers of America. She teaches workshops in both charcoal and oil portraiture, and her paintings hang in public and private collections not only in the United States, but in Europe and Russia.
Margaret Carter Baumgaertner’s distinctive style reflects a type of portraiture that is dignified, finely executed, and always respectful of the traditions from which portrait art has risen.
Classes taught by Margaret Baumgaertner
Creating a Timeless Oil Portrait
This 5 day workshop will cover all portions of the portrait process. The class will cover the placement of the head on canvas, gridding and drawing a linear “cartoon”, massing in three tonal values, color correction, modeling the form in three dimensions, placing the features, and the finishing process. The student will also be introduced to important oil portraits and portrait artists, stretching a canvas, final varnishing, as well as anatomy and planes of the head. There will be two demos during the week with the rest of the time devoted to student work time and critiques. Students will work on one pose for the duration of the five days.