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Connie Lynn Reilly

Painting the Portrait in Oil 
November 7 - 9
Wednesday - Friday
9:30 AM—4 PM
$400 (+$20 model fee)

 
Beginner to Advanced levels.
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Connie Lynn Reilly Professional Portraitist and International Award Winning Artist will teach her basic principles of portraiture. Some drawing skills preferred. The class will begin with drawing the portrait from life and will immediately go into painting in oil with Connie’s recommended palette of colors. Artists will gain skills in capturing the “portrait likeness” as well as capture the spirit of the portrait and Connie’s color theory for mixing colors.


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Native Atlanta, Georgia Artist Connie Lynn Reilly is widely known as a master instructor and painter in classical representational drawing and painting.

Because of her vast experience in the mediums of pastel, oil, watercolor and colored pencil, her art classes are highly sought from beginner to advanced. Connie openly shares her knowledge and expertise in painting portraits in pastel and oil in her, demos, workshops and ongoing portrait course. Her workshops and classes are designed for intermediate to advanced oil and pastel artists.

Her portraits and paintings have received national and international recognition and are owned by private, public and museum collections such as the Booth Museum, Tennessee Tech University, Atlanta History Center, John Bell Hood Society, St Joseph’s Hospital, the Royal Palace of Imir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain, and the Museum of Church History & Art of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well as numerous others.

Several of Connie’s portraits and historical works have appeared and have been published in national and international publications. Her pastel portrait of “Christine”, a portrait of a young four year old girl, is featured in a North Light book entitled, “ The Best of Portrait Painting.”

Among her numerous portrait commissions are the portraits for the Royal Family of Bahrain, commissioned by the Al Kahlifa family, including a full length portrait of the Imir’s wife, Her Highness Sheikha Benna, and separate paintings of their two children.

She has been a featured guest on local and national television shows such as the Gwinnett Today Show and WTV21 Talk of the Town, as well as the television cable network, Fine Living on a show entitled “Back to Basics” which was a special program on Connie’s portraiture and portrait process.

Connie’s list of accomplishments also includes the founding of the Southeastern Pastel Society, of which she is President Emeritus and Signature member of Excellence. She is also a Member of the Oil Painters of America and the Portrait Society of America.

She continues to teach classes and workshops to beginners, intermediate, advanced and professional artists.

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  • HOME
  • QUINLAN MEMBERSHIP
  • 43rd GALA Exhibition
    • Call For Artists
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • 2020 Winter Exhibition
    • Past exhibitions >
      • 73rd Members' Exhibition
      • 2020 Fall
      • 2020 Spring
      • 2019 Winter Exhibition
      • Fall Exhibitions 2019 >
        • Fifth Virginia Avery Memorial "Reflections" Juried Art Exhibition Awards
      • Summer Exhibitions 2019
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • Spring Exhibitions 2019
      • Youth Art Month 2019
      • 2019 GALA
      • 2019 GALA RED CARPET PHOTOS
      • 72nd Annual Members' Exhibition
      • 71st Annual Members' Exhibition
      • FALL EXHIBITIONS
      • Pentamerous Photography & Folk Art Show
      • 2018 Spring Exhibitions
      • 2018 Youth Art Month >
        • YAM & YMAS Winners
      • GALA 2018 Exhibition
      • Winter (17-18) Exhibitions
      • 2017 Fall Exhibitions
      • 70th Annual Members' Exhibition
      • 2017 Summer Exhibitions
      • 2017 Spring Exhibitions
      • GALA 2017- Geoffrey Johnson Artist Guest of Honor
      • Winter Exhibitions 2016-2017
      • 69th Annual Members Exhibition
      • 2016 Fall Exhibitions
      • 2016 Summer Exhibitions
      • 2016 Spring Exhibitions
      • YOUTH ART MONTH 2016 >
        • YAM Winners
      • GALA 2016 >
        • Photo Gallery
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • 68th Annual Members' Exhibition
      • Fall Exhibitions 2015
      • YOUTH ART MONTH 2015
      • HOME FOLK: A Celebration of Folk Art >
        • ART CARS
      • Spring Exhibitions
      • GALA 2015
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • 67th Annual Members' Exhibition
      • Fall Exhibitions - 2014
      • Summer 2014
      • Spring Exhibitions-2014
      • 2014 Youth Art Month >
        • 2014 Youth Art Month Winners
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • 66th Annual Members' Exhibition
      • The Traveling Show
      • Inspired Georgia
      • Fall Exhibitions
      • Summer Exhibitions (ASMA)
      • Spring Exhibitions 2013
      • YOUTH ART MONTH 2013
      • GALA 2013
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • Dog and Pony Show
      • 65th Annual Members Exhibition
      • TULA Art Center Artists -summer 2012
      • Folk Art - summer 2012
      • Spring 2012
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