Leah Lopez
Bio
Leah Lopez, a native of New Mexico, focused her attention on drawing and painting from life at age 23. She studied at art schools in Glendale, CA, Scottsdale, AZ, Santa Fe and Taos, NM with renowned artists Gregg Kreutz, Sherrie McGraw, and David Leffel. Leah has a genuine appreciation for many classical artists, old masters, modern masters and the kind of dedication it takes to continue in their honored tradition. As a result, her approach to drawing and painting is that every new subject is an opportunity to learn. “Things always change, the arrangement, the model, the light, the way color appears, all this offers endless variations to study.” She adds, “It brings me great comfort and satisfaction that this beautiful journey doesn’t have a destination.”
Leah Lopez is an award winning artist whose paintings have been displayed in various national and international exhibitions including the Salon International, American Women Artists, Allied Artists of America, SAS Best and Brightest, and Miniatures at The Albuquerque Museum. Since 2000, Leah has had the privilege of teaching drawing and painting to students of all ages. She is also proudly represented by galleries across the Southwest. www.leahlopez.com
Classes taught by Leah Lopez
The Beauty of Still Life in Oil
Still life painting in oil is a wonderful way to explore the beauty of working from life while learning how to apply paint that adds a supple brilliancy to a painting. Leah will demonstrate how to begin a painting with a beautifully designed setup. She will explain how taking the time to observe the movement of light over the whole setup and recognizing the similarities and relationships will help to simplify your approach. Then she’ll illustrate how the use of deliberate paint strokes, light, shadow, color and edge variations an artist can not only create harmony and dimension but also tell a beautiful story.
The Beauty of Portrait Drawing from Life
This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
There is an inherent beauty and spontaneity that comes when drawing from life. Drawing a portrait model from life enables an artist to see and capture a line, a quality, a character that is “alive”. To express this “life”, students start by simplifying what they see when they look at the model. They can then open themselves up to observe movements of light, the flow of lines, and to recognize similarities and relationships. Leah’s demonstrations will shed light on creating beautiful line and gesture, capturing form and dimension, studying planes and symmetry, the basic anatomical structures, and how all these elements are interrelated.