Intro to Portrait Painting for All Levels (Jan-March) - 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 your subject.

What You’ll Learn

• This class focuses on developing participants' skills in relation to anatomy, colour, tone, constructing a palette, mark making, and 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, helping you develop your own practice and artistic style in a way that is true to you.

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 your regular oil painting supplies and a few choices of canvas formats and sizes to your first class.