Conte portrait drawing on bond paper by Ken Bronikowski at milwaukee Sketch Club on Tuesday 11/11/08

Ken is an excellent artist and teacher. I found some information about him at the following:
http://www.finelinedesignsgallery.com/artists/KenBronikowski.html
http://www.riveredgegalleries.com/REGBronikowski.html
https://www.peninsulaartschool.com/Painting___Drawing.html

Ken started out with smooth bond paper toned with sanguine? conte crayon. Then he looked for shapes and drew them in. He used an kneaded erasor to pick out the highlights. This paper and technique is very forgiving. You can keep adding and subtracting pigment.

He also talked about the colors he uses with his Winsor Newton water miscible oils
(Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colour see http://www.winsornewton.com/main.aspx?PageID=35 )

• 4 colors for portraits: Ivory black + yellow ochre = greens; white, yellow ochre & red to make purples. (He refered to Anders Zorn 4 color pallette, http://andysartblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/zorn-palette.html , http://www.alsing.com/zorn_eng/18601889.html and http://www.artgraphica.net/free-art-lessons/anders-zorn-oil-painter/anders-zorn-oil-painter-2.htm )
  
• 5 colors for landscapes: Cadmium yellow light, cadmium red light, alizarin crimson, pthalo green (yellow shade), ultramarine blue and titanium white

He paints with I believe Dan Gerhartz from Wisconsin. (There's another artist out west named Dan Gerhart http://www.dangerhart.com/ but I don't think that's the right one. It's interesting how midwest art can be less edgy than art elsewhere)
http://www.shafferfineart.com/The_Art_of_Daniel_Gerhartz.htm
http://www.meyergalleries.com/santafe/bio/62.asp
http://www.thecollectionshop.com/xq/ASP/ArtistName2.Dan_Gerhartz/Dan_Gerhartz/qx/Artist_Profile.htm
http://www.framingfox.com/danfger.html

His brother, Steve Gerhartz, has a website. http://www.stevegerhartz.com/about.html

I started a new pastel portrait Thursday.