Ifat Glassman

Welcome back!

Hello Objectivism Online. Long time no see. And when I say "long time" I mean something like 7 years. 
I'm an Israeli. As I'm sure you all know, Israel is at war now, after a horrific massacre where 1400 people were murdered in their home or at a party, and 240 more were kidnapped. Israel needs all the support it can get, as it is facing a huge wave of anti-Israeli activism. 
 
I want to invite you to follow a project I've started, that could help you get a deeper grasp of the occurrences of October 7th, and get to know a little better some of those who were kidnapped. Starting 15 days ago, I've been drawing one of the kidnapped people; men, women and children of all ages, while including a few words about who they are, and the circumstances of their kidnapping, in each post. 
I'm sharing some of the portraits here, and would welcome anyone who'd like to follow the project on Facebook. 
Stay safe. 

Hello Objectivism Online. Long time no see. And when I say "long time" I mean something like 7 years. 
I'm an Israeli. As I'm sure you all know, Israel is at war now, after a horrific massacre where 1400 people were murdered in their home or at a party, and 240 more were kidnapped. Israel needs all the support it can get, as it is facing a huge wave of anti-Israeli activism. 
 
I want to invite you to follow a project I've started, that could help you get a deeper grasp of the occurrences of October 7th, and get to know a little better some of those who were kidnapped. Starting 15 days ago, I've been drawing one of the kidnapped people; men, women and children of all ages, while including a few words about who they are, and the circumstances of their kidnapping, in each post. 
I'm sharing some of the portraits here, and would welcome anyone who'd like to follow the project on Facebook. 
Stay safe. 

And these, which didn't make it through on the last post. These are all details from the same painting. It's nude, so I'll include it as a link and not a picture: Link. 
 

Hi,
Been such a long time since I've posted here. Stumbled upon a post from this forum tonight and decided to check my old thread. 
I've recently finished a few paintings. I'll post a couple that do not have nudity and one detail shot from the painting with the nude so that the picture doesn't catch anyone at work off guard. 
I'd appreciate it if anyone is interested and wants to follow me if you visit either my blog &subscribe or my Facebook page and 'Like' it. I post a lot of sketches, pictures of work in progress and various thoughts about art philosophy on both. I also write about art philosophy a lot on my blog and my page and I enjoy feedback. 
So here are the links: www.facebook.com/ifat.glassman and www.ifatart.com or www.ifatart.com/blog 
Here are some Latest artworks. 
 
Cheers,
Ifat 

Hi,
Been such a long time since I've posted here. Stumbled upon a post from this forum tonight and decided to check my old thread. 
I've recently finished a few paintings. I'll post a couple that do not have nudity and one detail shot from the painting with the nude so that the picture doesn't catch anyone at work off guard. 
I'd appreciate it if anyone is interested and wants to follow me if you visit either my blog &subscribe or my Facebook page and 'Like' it. I post a lot of sketches, pictures of work in progress and various thoughts about art philosophy on both. I also write about art philosophy a lot on my blog and my page and I enjoy feedback. 
So here are the links: www.facebook.com/ifat.glassman and www.ifatart.com or www.ifatart.com/blog 
Here are some Latest artworks. 
 
Cheers,
Ifat 

I'm in the mood to share this drawing I created. 8''X11'' Graphite, the drawing was done from imagination. 
I named it 'Dancing through Fire'. 
 
(I post a lot of artwork and studies on my Art page on Facebook, if anyone is interested, visit and 'Like'.  )
 

I'm in the mood to share this drawing I created. 8''X11'' Graphite, the drawing was done from imagination. 
I named it 'Dancing through Fire'. 
 
(I post a lot of artwork and studies on my Art page on Facebook, if anyone is interested, visit and 'Like'.  )
 

Hello. It's been almost two years since my last post, but I thought I'd stop by and update this thread. 
 
I post frequently to my Art page on Facebook; a lot of studies, sketches, imaginary drawings as well as paintings and major projects. You're welcome to visit and 'Like' it to see the content Here or you can also subscribe to my website at: ifatart.com for the more philosophical content (I write about the philosophy of art and my thoughts about my own work and other artists' work). 
 
So here are a few highlights from the last 2 years (and the last one is a tiny sketch from imagination I did last week). 
 
Enjoy and if you like it, please visit/ subscribe to my Art page on Facebook. :-) 
 

Hi JASKN. Nice to see you here again after so many years... 
 
Some of my paintings take over a year as I take a long time to figure things out, some of them take several weeks and some are just a few minutes.
The ones I posted here are: 2 weeks, 3 hours a day for the glass bottle still life, 3 days for the woman in the forest portrait, about 10 hours for the forest trail one, The portrait of a Chinese woman took 2 weeks, 3 hours every day and I was working from life and the last sketch took about 20 minutes or so and was drawn from imagination. 
 
I have a couple of long projects that I've been working on for the last year and those have countless hours of work put into them and studies to do them. I'm expecting to be done with them by the end of the month. Fingers Crossed. 

They are lovely, Ifat. On average, do you spend the same amount of time on each? How do you decide when one is finished?

A 4-week portrait painting in Oil.

If anyone is interested this painting is offered for sale as well as the rest of my student work. I will be using these greatly needed funds for my tuition and art supplies.
You have all the info on my blog: Link.

I would love to hear your thoughts about my art.
ifatart.com
The paintings, sketches and drawings in my site are works that I've done over the last 6 years or so.
My older paintings are more in the style of Fantasy art, or what I call Symbolic art, and my later paintings describe real life situations. A few of my works are directly related to Ayn Rand's novels.
The quality of the technique also varies according to age of the painting (the later ones are better).
Here is one of my best works:


Hope you enjoy, and please tell me what you think.

Here's another drawing I did for fun:



That's it for now. I'll update it later with some more works.

Alrighty... time to display some of my new stuff. I've started studying full time at an art school that offers classical training: Georgetown Atelier.
It's been a while since I posted here so I have a lot to show. I'll start with the works I've been doing at my Atelier.


A 3 hour drawing (so not a finished work):



This one took 3 weeks. My first rendering project (meaning, using full value range and not just blocking-in the figure/object).


Another 3 weeks project (though this is not the latest picture):




Now to the ones I made before the Atelier. The one I'm most proud of (from everything I've ever done), in terms of its spiritual value is this unfinished painting:




And another one I did was this:

Here's another drawing I did for fun:



That's it for now. I'll update it later with some more works.