The portrait in oil, theory and practice cod 271
- Mondays,
- 9.30AM - 12.30PM
- 01/07/2024
- 05/08/2024
- Sessions: 6
- Duration: 18.00 hrs
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Course Description
In the six-three-hour oil painting sessions of this course we will paint few portraits from photographic references I will provide andfrom Masters’ works, focusing on the method and technique and bringing each work to a finish, refining the painting technique and the quality of the final result.
We will paint using the direct painting technique, a very efficient and satisfying method for portraiture that is also very good for practicing color mixing, brushwork, consistency of the paint and obtain fresh and expressive portraits. Each portrait will start with a few small preliminary studies and posterization sketches, to study composition and colors to use.We will also practice painting with limited palette, a fundamental method that permits to understand how to use chroma, temperature, value, tint and tone when painting.
The participants of the course, will also be encouraged to work on an independent project: a portrait of a subject of their choice, a self-portrait, a good way to start making personal aesthetic and technical choices, and put to work the notions discussed and practiced in class. Composition, color mixing, paint handling, materials, color theory, color mixing, color blending and the techniques employed by a few masters, are some of the topics, among others, that will be discussed and practiced throughout the duration of the course.
Open to all levels.
Materials
- Paint: alizarine crimson, cadmium red medium ultramarine blue, cobalt blue cadmium, yellow lemon, cadmium yellow, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber, black, white.
- A wooden, plastic, or disposable palette. If you buy a wooden palette, make sure it is treated with a few layers of linseed oil to prevent the untreated wood to soak up the oil from the paint. I can show you how to do this in class, but you’ll need a disposable or plastic palette for the first class.
- A variety of brushes: hog and synthetic will do; Filbert or bright, #2, 6, 8, and 12 will do. You will also need a few round, synthetic brushes, #2 and 4. You can also use the colors that you already have and we will discuss about these materials in class.
- Linseed oil (refined linseed oil will suffice), Galkid or Liquin, Turpenoid or other low odor solvent.
- Compressed charcoal pencils in hard and medium gradations(B-2B). Good brands are General’s and Wolff’s carbon.
- Rags or paper towels.
- A metal cup for the medium and a palette knife.
- Canvas or canvas boards size 20”by 16”, or so.
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