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Oil Portrait Painting
Dates: Friday evenings starting in the Spring April 2010.
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Instructor: Sid Solomon
Tuition: $155, includes model fee
Location: Collins Artworks Art Center, 18 High Street, Clinton, MA 01510 Maximum class size: 12
Learn:
- Construction of the head from the skull outward
- How to create a nice expression
- What colors to use in the lights and shadows on flesh
- How to see and paint highlights and half tones
- How to make a grisaille underpainting
- How to glaze and scumble
- How to use optical grays
- How to use hard and soft edges
- How to use a viewfinder
- How to use toned grounds and imprimaturas
- What chiaroscuro is used for
- To improve your drawing and painting dramatically
Description: Paint like an old master! A course that takes you through the stages of painting oil portraits from life done in the technique used by the masters of the Renaissance. Create works of art using grisaille underpainting, glazing, and scumbling oil on canvas. Prior experience in oils painting is useful but not required.
Materials and supplies: Vine charcoal, 11” x 14” pad of heavy drawing paper, kneaded eraser, 12 inch ruler, paper palette, set of oil paints, paper towels, paint thinner, 16” x 20” canvas.
