Portrait Painting (Monday)
Adult Summer Class | This program is completed
This beginner to intermediate course in oils (or acrylic) will focus on portraiture from a sculptural standpoint, highlighting the basic bony landmarks of the face and skull and using color/value to define major planes and movements of each feature. Moving from large, simple shapes of the face under light, students will transition their thinking from flat abstraction into three-dimensional form.
What you will learn:
1. The basic structure and anatomy of the head/face
2. Simplifying form to planes
3. Alla prima techniques for portrait painting
4. Drawing the features as homework assignments
• Palette with enough surface to mix colors (can be disposable)
• (2) #8 flat bristle brushes (Silver Grand Prix Extra Long preferred or Blick Masterstroke)
• (2) #4 flat bristle brushes (Silver Grand Prix Extra Long preferred or Blick Masterstroke)
• Gamsol and container with lid
• Blue shop paper towels (or non-lint paper towels such as Viva)
• 12 x 16 stretched canvas (1 for each class)
• Palette knife
Suggested palette (less expensive alternatives in parentheses):
• Cadmium Lemon (Cadmium Hue, or Permanent version)
• Cadmium Yellow Medium or Deep (Cadmium Hue, or Permanent version)
• Cadmium Orange (Cadmium Hue, or Permanent version)
• (Naphthol Red [preferred]) or Cadmium Red Light
• Quinacridone Magenta
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cobalt Turquoise Blue (Cerulean)
• Viridian
• Permanent green or Light Green
• Ivory Black
• Flake White or Titanium White
• Yellow Ochre (Light)
• Burnt Umber
Optional helpful colors:
• Cobalt blue
• Dioxazine Purple
• Raw Umber
• Raw Sienna
• Caput Mortuum
• Alizarin Crimson
• Indian Yellow Deep or Extra Deep
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