Painting the Figure

Adult Class | Available

All levels welcome.
3/31/2025-6/2/2025
6:30 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Mon
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Painting the Figure

Adult Class | Available

This class will provide you with an introduction to figure painting. Students will work from the live model. Emphasis will be given to seeing color and value (lights and darks) and mixing color. Students will gain understanding in how to translate what they see when looking at the model into a painting. Several demonstrations will be given during the class. Personal attention will be given to each student according to their experience. All levels of experience will benefit from this very fundamental course.

What you will learn: 
1. Students will gain confidence in drawing the figure
2. Understanding of the importance of "gesture"
3. How to describe the mass and form with light and shadow
4. How to see proportion
5. Seeing the model in terms of shape, color and line quality

Please note: This is a 9-session class. Class will not meet on Monday, May 26 in observance of Memorial Day.

  • 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

  • CANVAS:
    • Medium sized canvas or board

  • 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)

Paul DuSold