Portrait Painting (Monday)

Adult Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome.

9/12/2022-11/14/2022

1:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT on Mon

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$315.00

$285.00

$60.00

$15.00

Gain a sense of confidence when attempting a portrait. In this workshop you will learn the fundamentals of developing a strong likeness. You will learn to see with greater understanding and how to translate what you see into a painting. Students will work from the live model. Several demonstrations will be given. Emphasis in this class is on fundamentals of seeing and mixing color. Skin is a very unique and demanding subject. By learning to see all the subtleties that constitute the illusion of skin in painting students will learn to be much more capable and confident in their approach to painting any subject matter – even abstract painting.

What you will learn in this course
1. Students will develop confidence in achieving a likeness
2. Fundamentals of head structure
3. Fundamentals of light and shadow
4. How to see and describe complexions

  • This is an in-person class which will take place in our building with strict social distancing protocols and reduced student capacity. Masks are required. Please see our COVID-19 community safety policies.

  • Paint:
  • • White; Zinc +Titanium. Comes in one tube called "mixed white".
  • • Ivory Black
  • • Ultramarine Blue
  • • Indian Red
  • • Transparent Oxide Red
  • • Cadmium Red Light
  • • Yellow Ochre
  • • Cadmium Yellow

  • Brushes should be a combination of bristle and sable or artificial sable brushes. I recommend either Winsor & Newton or Princeton brand brushes.

  • Winsor & Newton brand:
  • • Lexington Filbert series, #’s 6,8 & 10 – two of each
  • • Monarch Filbert series, #’s 4,6 & 8 – two of each
  • • Monarch Round series, #’s, 2, 4 & 6 – two of each

  • Princeton brand, natural bristle brushes:
  • • Filbert; Sizes, 12, 10, 8 and 6
  • • Round: Sizes, 6, 4 and 2

  • • Liquin
  • • Either a “strip” palette made of sheets on a pad , or a wooden palette. Palette cups, which clip onto the palette and hold the medium and solvent.
  • • Mineral spirits, turpenoid or ‘Gamsol”
  • • Paper towels.
  • • Stretched canvas, cotton or linen or canvas boards. Suggested sizes: 12 x 14, 14 x 18”, 16 x 20” 18 x 24”
  • • A palette knife is needed for scraping the palette.