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Modern Master Portrait Painting
Dates: Wednesday evenings starting April 7, 14, 21, 28 and May 5, 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
- Bones and muscles of the head and neck
- Colors to use in light and shadow
- How to use highlights and half tones
- Using colored backgrounds
- Cool and warm flesh colors
- Using hard and soft edges
- Mediums, thinners and varnishes
- Use of viewfinders
- Direct vs. indirect painting methods
- Improve your drawing and painting up to 100%
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.

