Intro to Portrait Painting for All Levels (July) - Emre Karaoglu

Participants will explore portrait painting and learn to capture the form and emotion of a portrait or figure with oil.

Participants will learn the oil painting process, starting with a monochromatic sketch and overlaying a limited palette of mixed chromatic colors to achieve a rich, harmonious portrait that is full of life and captures a strong likeness to the subject.

What You’ll Learn

This class focuses on developing skills in:

• Anatomy
• Color
• Tone
• Constructing a palette
• Mark making
• Developing emotion and expression in oil painting

The instructor will share and discuss core artistic principles, both theoretical and practical, as tools to gain a greater understanding of portrait and figure painting. This approach will help participants develop their own practice and artistic style in a way that is true to them.

Instruction Includes

• Helpful tips and advice about portrait painting with oil
• Proportion
• Capturing movement and emotion
• Form and color
• Tonal value range
• Composition
• Mark making
• Constructing a palette

Media

• Oil paint
• Canvas
• Paper

Materials

Please bring:

• Regular oil painting supplies
• A few choices of canvas formats and sizes for the first class