Indirect Painting: The Portrait
- All levels
- 18 and older
- $305
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- Virtual Classroom
- 18 hours over 6 sessions
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92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom
Unlock the secrets of capturing the essence of a model through anatomy, proportion, and color-mixing. Embrace the challenge of painting different views of the head with live models, as you explore the art of portrait painting. Join us on this artistic journey and bring your portraits to life.
May 22nd
10am–12:30pm EDT
Meets 7 Times
May 22nd
1–3:30pm EDT
Meets 7 Times
This class has been designed to remove some of the mystery of the almost magical techniques of the European Masters. Painting from the model on zoom, students will learn how to develop a grisaille (a monochromatic under-painting), and then add semi-opaque layers of color and transparent glazes to realize an almost inner glow when painting flesh.
Demonstrations by John Wellington will include advanced blending techniques, glazing, rendering forms in light and shadow, applications of warm and cool layers of color to give depth to flesh, and how to balance both perceptive and conceptual skills in depicting the features of the face. Although not an “artist’s materials,” class there will be a thorough review of brushes, paints, media, linens, wood, aluminum, and copper prepared panels.
There will be one six-week poses with the live model through Zoom. A good internet connection is important for this class.
Materials List:
PAINT COLORS (brands are suggested):
The following is a basic list of oil colors. I paint primarily with Vasari, Rublev Colours, and Gamblin Colors. Colors in bold are for limited palettes.
BRUSHES:
Below are brushes that we use. Isabey brushes are very expensive and may be substituted with synthetic replacements to cut down on cost. All brushes are “round” as opposed to flats and filberts, as the latter were not used in traditional painting until the latter part of the 19th Century.
MEDIUMS: Gamblin’s Galkyd Lite, Galkyd Slow Dry and Neo Megilp thinned with mineral spirits are all good mediums for class work. http://www.gamblincolors.com/mediums/index.html
SUPPORTS: Paintings may be done on portrait linen, wood panel, aluminum, copper, or prepared watercolor paper. “Cotton-duck” and poor quality canvas boards produce the worst surface to paint on and should be avoided in this class.
OTHER MATERIALS:
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
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