Portrait Painting in Oils or Acrylics

Portrait Painting in Oils or Acrylics

Class | This program is completed

All Levels

6/28/2023-7/26/2023

1:30 PM-4:30 PM PDT on Wed

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$320.00

$288.00

$20.00

Learn to paint realistic portraits using oil or acrylic paint. Students will develop original portrait paintings from live art models and discover essential techniques for capturing a model’s likeness with accuracy. Nicholas Enevoldsen will present live demonstrations, individual critiques, and a series of lectures designed to equip students with techniques for mixing flesh tones, color theory principles, paint application, and how to imbue their work with a compelling sense of light, atmosphere, and form.

  • 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.

  • Students may choose to work with either oil or acrylic painting media. Below are supply lists specific to oil-based or acrylic-based painting.

    OIL-BASED PAINTING – SUPPLY LIST

    OIL COLORS
    Cadmium Red Light
    Alizarin Crimson
    Ultramarine Blue
    Cerulean Blue or Manganese Blue
    Cadmium Yellow Medium or Light
    Yellow Ochre / Yellow Ochre Pale (Winsor Newton)
    Titanium / Flake White (large tube)
    Raw Umber
    Ivory Black

    (Optional Oil Colors: Cadmium Orange, Titanium Nickel Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Quinacridone Magenta, Viridian Green, Dioxizine Purple, Old Holland English Red)

    SUPPORTS (Painting Surfaces)
    (2) Pre-stretched canvas or gesso-primed wood panel (11 X 14” – 18 X 24”)
    MEDIUMS /ADDITIVES
    Refined Linseed Oil or Gamblin Solvent Free Liquid

    BRUSHES
    Bristle or Synthetic: 0, 2, 4, 6, 10 (flat, filbert, or round)
    Raphael Kolinsky Sable: sizes 0, 2 (pointed round)

    MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
    Palette (glass, wood, or paper sheets – Neutral color is BEST)
    Palette Knife – (medium diamond head recommended)
    Brush Cleaning Jar with Lid – Gamsol solvent only*
    Paper towels / Cotton rags
    Vine / Willow Charcoal Sticks (for preparatory drawing on canvas)
    Kneaded Eraser


    ACRYLIC BASED PAINTING—SUPPLY LIST

    ACRYLIC COLORS
    (Heavy Body – Golden or Liquitex paint recommended)
    Black - Ivory/Mars/Bone
    Raw Umber
    Ultramarine Blue
    Cerulean Blue
    Alizarin Crimson
    Yellow Ochre
    Cadmium Red Light / Pyrrole Red Light
    Cadmium Yellow Medium / Hansa Yellow Med.
    Titanium White (large tube)

    (*optional - Cadmium Orange / Vat Orange,Titanate Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Quinacridone Magenta, Viridian Green, Dioxazine Purple)

    MEDIUM
    Golden Glazing Liquid (satin or gloss)
    (*optional medium - Golden Heavy Gel Medium - matte or gloss)

    SUPPORTS (Painting Surfaces)
    (2) stretched canvases or gesso primed wood panels (11” X 14” – 18” x 24”)

    ACRYLIC BRUSHES: synthetic bristles
    Princeton/Winsor Newton Galleria: Sizes 0, 2, 4, 6, 10 (flat or round)
    Raphael Kolinsky Sable: sizes 0, 2 (pointed round)

    MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
    Palette: paper, glass, or wood (neutral color is BEST)
    Palette Knife – (medium diamond head recommended)
    Vine Charcoal: soft/medium sticks for preparatory drawing.
    Cheap Spray Bottle (for water)
    Cheap Plastic Cup (for water)