Fleisher Art Memorial | Portrait Painting (Monday)

Portrait Painting (Monday)

Adult Class | Available

Level

All levels welcome.

Date

4/1/2024-5/20/2024

Time

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

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Tuition

$265.00

Member Tuition

$240.00

Model Fee

$62.00

Studio Fee

$20.00

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Program Description

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:
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 8-session course.

Special Notes

This is an in-person class. Please review our Safety Policies and Community Guidelines.

To make our classes and workshops accessible to everyone, Fleisher offers tuition assistance every term so that everyone can join our creative community. Tuition assistance applications can be completed once registration is open by clicking here.

Required Supplies

OIL COLORS: Winsor & Newton or Rembrandt or Gamblin.
I do not recommend student grade paints such as Winsor & Newton’s Winton or Utrecht brand paints.
• Ivory Black
• Ultramarine Blue
• Indian Red
• Yellow Ochre
• Cadmium Yellow
• Cadmium Red Light
• Chromium oxide green
• Sap Green
• Transparent Oxide Red
• Mixed White (combination of zinc and Titanium)

MEDIUM: Winsor and Newton’s “Liquin”

BRUSHES: Brushes should be a combination of bristle and sable or artificial sable brushes.
• Robert Simmons Signet bristle brushes, Filbert or Round shape #’s 6, 8, 10 & 12 – one or two of each
• Winsor & Newton Monarch Filbert series, #’s 4, 6 & 8 – one or two of each
• Monarch Round series, #’s, 2, 4 & 6 – one or two of each

PALETTE AND PALETTE CUPS:
• Either a “strip” palette made of sheets on a pad, or a wooden palette. Palette cups are the small tin cups which clip onto the palette and hold the medium and solvent.

SOLVENT:
• Mineral spirits, turpenoid or ‘Gamsol'

PAPER TOWELS:
• Bounty or Viva (better quality)

Instructor(s)

Paul DuSold