Monday, March 19, 2012

Steve Childs Portrait Demonstration at Salmagundi Club NYC

While cleaning my studio recently I came across this 10 year old taping of me painting a demonstration portrait at the Salmagundi Club in New York City. In Fall of 2001 my good friend and renowned painter/teacher John Howard Sanden graciously invited me to come to NYC and speak about my work and do a portrait demo the next morning.  My other good friend and great artist Bart Lindstrom brought his video camera along and asked if it would be okay to record my demo. He filmed it handheld and sat next to the music I had playing so the music appears a bit louder than it was. Regardless, I am forever thankful to him for recording this and giving me a copy. My demo probably lasted about an hour and a half but I've condensed it down to 25 minutes. I would also like to thank the model, a beautiful young woman who I simple selected from the audience. I'm sorry that I have forgotten her name but she was kind to agree to miss the demo from one side of the canvas in order to sit still on the other side. Hopefully someday someone will see this video and recognize her and let me know. You may follow other videos about my work at the YouTube channel "FilmingVision".  Thank you again John Sanden for your years of encouragement and friendship and for allowing me the opportunity to share my work with others. 
Steve Childs

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