MEET PRIVATELY
We look at your portrait together.
A PRIVATE 30-DAY PORTRAIT EXPERIENCE
Your Portrait Begins With Someone Worth Remembering
Bring a photograph that means something to you.
For the next 30 days, you will enter a private studio experience where I will guide you, one thoughtful step at a time, as you create a graphite portrait of someone you love.
From Photo to Heirloom
YOUR STORY ENTERS THE STUDIO
Bring the Photograph That Matters to You
Your portrait begins with a photograph you already treasure. It may capture a smile you remember, a quiet moment, or simply the way you want to remember someone you love.
You bring the photograph. Together, we begin to see the portrait within it.
BEFORE THE PORTRAIT TAKES SHAPE
First, We WillLearn to See
You do not have to know how to draw everything you see. You only need a way to begin seeing it more clearly.
The grid helps you slow down and focus on one small area at a time. Placement lines help you find where the features belong using familiar shapes and lines.
I will help you turn what feels complicated into smaller, understandable decisions.
BETWEEN THE LINES AND THE LIKENESS
You Do Not Have to Figure It Out Alone
As your portrait develops, there will be moments when something does not look quite right, and you may not know why. That is where I come in. I will look at your portrait with you, help you notice what is working, and guide you toward the next adjustment without taking the drawing out of your hands.
Before changing the eye, check the shape around it.
This is working beautifully.
student work Rubertha’s attention helpful observation next step
The portrait remains yours. You simply have an experienced set of eyes beside you.
ONE THOUGHTFUL STEP AT A TIME
Watch the Likeness Begin to Emerge
A portrait does not come together all at once. We build it gradually—strengthening the features, developing form and depth, and making thoughtful adjustments as the person begins to emerge on the page.
Proportion and placement remain open.
Relationships between features are tested.
Value begins to turn flat shapes into form.
Recognition strengthens; the drawing remains in progress.
You are not racing toward a finished drawing. You are learning to recognize what the portrait needs next.
YOUR 30 DAYS TOGETHER
A Gentle Rhythm, Built Around Your Portrait
You do not need to rearrange your life around this experience. Over 30 days, we will work with your portrait through private coaching, thoughtful practice, and personal feedback—giving you time to draw, reflect, make adjustments, and continue.
DRAW AT YOUR PACE
You continue the work between our conversations.
RECEIVE PERSONAL FEEDBACK
When you need another set of eyes, I help you see the next adjustment.
CONTINUE WITH DIRECTION
You return to the portrait knowing what to work on next.
Across your 30-day experience, you will have four hours of private one-on-one coaching with me, along with personal feedback as your portrait develops.
There is a rhythm to the experience, but there is no race.
INSIDE YOUR 30-DAY EXPERIENCE
Everything Here Has a Purpose
You will not enter your Studio and wonder what to do next.
Your 30-day experience brings together private coaching, personal feedback, guided practice, and your private Studio so each part supports the portrait you came here to create.
FOUR HOURS OF
PRIVATE COACHING
One-on-one time with me, centered on your portrait and what it needs next.
PERSONAL FEEDBACK
A place to share your work in progress and receive thoughtful guidance as your portrait develops.
GUIDED PORTRAIT PRACTICE
A clear process that helps you move from seeing and placement into form, depth, likeness, and refinement.
YOUR PRIVATE STUDENT STUDIO
One calm place for your portrait, reference photograph, practice, feedback, progress, and portfolio.
Every part of the experience comes back to one thing: helping you continue your portrait with greater clarity and confidence.
BEYOND THIS ONE PORTRAIT
What You Learn Stays With You
This experience is centered on one meaningful portrait, but what you practice here can reach beyond it.
You will spend these 30 days learning to look more carefully, make thoughtful drawing decisions, recognize what needs attention, and continue when the portrait feels uncertain.
I can look more carefully.
I can make the next decision.
I can begin again.
The heirloom you create matters. So does the confidence to begin another portrait when someone else becomes worth remembering.
WHEN YOU ARE READY
Your Place in the Studio Is Waiting
If there is someone you have been wanting to draw, this is your invitation to begin.
For 30 days, we will work together inside your private Studio as you create a graphite portrait centered on someone who matters to you.
Your 30-Day Private Portrait Experience
$1,497 USD
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Bring the photograph. I will meet you in the Studio.
— Rubertha