B/W Gouache Portraits
Weekend Workshop | Available
LOCATION NOTE: This class will be taking place at our brand new South Lake Union location, 2107 Westlake Ave.
Learn to quickly establish proportion and gesture when painting the head. Exercises and lessons will enable you to identify the planes of the head using anatomical landmarks and translate them into clear value decisions. This is a great precursor to working in color or oil paint. Gouache is a quick drying medium that helps you practice making clear value decisions in front of the live model.
- Paper (select one or any smooth lightly sized paper)
1. 9x12 or 14x17 vellum or smooth bristol
2. Hot press water color paper
3. Canson’s XL Mixed Media paper
4. Thick, moleskine sketch notebooks
5. Cardstock (cheapest option)
*Also bring some light weight sketch paper roughly 9x12 or 11x14 for loosening up (Printer paper is ok!)
Paint
-Holbein Acrylic gouache Neutral Grey 1
-3 20 ml OR Neutral Grey 2 and 4 20 ml
-Permanent or Titatanium White 40 ml
-Jet Black 20 ml
-Trowel shaped metal palette knife
Brushes
-Synthetic bristles ranging in size from 0-6
-2 round ?” or size 1 or 0 brushes
-2 round ¼”-?” or size 4-6 brushes
-2 flat ½” brushes
Other Supplies
1 small fine spray bottle like for facial toner, a delicate mister
1 pack of 9x12 palette paper
Paper towels
A few graphite pencils
Sharpener
Eraser for sketching
Cup for water
Plastic see through ruler
Scissors
Drafting tape for taping edges