Alla Prima Portrait Painting and Drawing: Improving Likeness, Structure, Color & Expression

Alla Prima Portrait Painting and Drawing: Improving Likeness, Structure, Color & Expression

360 Online Class | Available

2107 Westlake Ave Seattle, WA 98121 United States

Online Class

All Levels

6/24/2024-7/22/2024

9:30 AM-12:30 PM PDT on Mon

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$390.00

$351.00

$20.00

This hands on workshop takes the student through the skills, practice and information to improve their portraits. Each class will address an aspect of portraits: structure, getting better likenesses, master copies, anatomy, color choices and mixing, styles of portraits and expression. Art history, video demos made by the instructor, Q&A and a weekly project assignment, critiqued by the instructor, will be part of each class. This is an enjoyable weekly exploration presented by a master portrait instructor.

  • We will discuss materials in the first class meeting.
    All media, oil, watercolor, pastel and drawing media are welcome and will be addressed.

    Basic classic palette for oil, acrylic or watercolor and pastel.
    • Yellow Ochre
    • Raw Umber
    • Burnt Sienna
    • Ivory Black
    • Cadmium Yellow Light
    • Cadmium Red Medium
    • Permanent Rose
    • Ultramarine Blue
    • Chromium Oxide Green
    • Dioxazine Purple
    • Titanium White

    Additional optional colors:
    Burnt Umber
    Mars Violet
    Green Earth
    Cadmium Orange
    Phthalo Blue
    Cadmium Green
    Cerulean Blue
    Zinc white
    Lead white

    Surfaces:
    Gessoed painting surfaces, 8X10-11X14, watercolor and pastel pads of choice.
    Basic color surfaces are white, gray, tan. These can be opaque or transparent imprimaturas.

    • Containers for oil and thinners or water (Preferably metal or heavy plastic. Not glass because they break)
    • Palette for mixing colors (Disposable, wood, metal, etc.)
    • Linseed oil for oil paints
    • Brushes for oil, watercolor or acrylic. (3-4 well shaped and flexible bristle brushes)
    • Paper towels
    • View finder for compositional choices

    Sketchbook for thumbnail sketches.
    Pastel or watercolor paper if needed