For Love or Money
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBA
Apr 12-16, 2010
Meets 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri
Tuition: $585.00
Model Fee: $35.00
Level: INT-ADV
Status: This program is completed
This workshop focuses on the challenges of becoming a successful commission portrait artist, which involves much more than just painting well! The commission portrait painter must understand client relationships, business practices, marketing and promotional activities, in addition to the complexities of delivering consistently high-quality paintings. This workshop includes both studio painting and lecture sessions. Saper will address the following areas of study: getting a likeness, understanding the colors of light and shadow, using photographic resources successfully, presenting yourself and your work effectively, client relations, understanding your market, and developing your own business plan. Students
should have excellent drawing skills. The handbook For Love or Money will be used in the class.
Instructor -- Chris Saper
Chris Saper’s portraits are included in nearly 300 collections throughout North America. She is the author of North Light Book’s Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color and Light, For Love or Money: A Business Handbook for Portrait Painters, Mostly Monochrome ,and has released two new DVDs “Painting Oil Portraits in Warm Light” and “Capturing the Beauty of Monochrome Oil Portraits.” Her work has been published in Strokes of Genius: the Best of Drawing and Strokes of Genius 2: The Best of Light and Shadow”. Saper writes a regular column for www.worldofportraitpainting.com and serves on the faculty of the Portrait Society of America. Saper is represented by Portraits, Inc., Portraits South, The Portrait Source, The Portrait Group, and Portrait Associates. www.chrissaper.com.
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