Portrait Painting
Class | This program is completed
Two essential issues will dominate our approach in this course: proportion and light/shadow. We’ll start slowly and methodically as we add layers of color and make informed decisions. Learn how to construct a monochrome under-painting to more easily establish lights and shadows. Angling and measuring will be stressed in order to depict proportion in an accurate and analytical way. The skull will be used to become familiar with the underlying structure of the head. The importance of edges, where one value transitions into another, will be stressed (light defines form, edges define the kind of form). We’ll be working with a rather limited, and manageable, palette of very specific colors.
No class on Monday, May 29th.
We recommend that everyone registered for an in-person program at Gage Academy of Art receives full COVID-19 vaccination. Gage leaves the use of face coverings when indoors at the facility up to each individual as masks are not required.
(4) 14x18 (+/-) pre-streched canvas or canvas boards
4 Filbert brushes, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 inches wide at the metal ferrule (because different manufactures use different numbers…)
Titanium white (any brand)
Jaune Brillant, Naples Yellow Redish, Brown Pink (Williamsburg Paints ONLY please)
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Cobalt Blue
Ivory Black
Yellow Ochre
Naphthol Red
Pallet Knife. Offset (not straight) with a two inch, teardrop shaped blade.
Small jar of linseed oil OR a small tube of Galkyd Gel Medium
Jars with lids for our solvent
RAGS!! (find an old cotton tee shirt)