Pre-requisites: Beginning Oil Painting.
Description: 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 Please bring your regular oil painting supplies and a few choices of canvas formats and sizes to your first class.
Emre Karaoglu, a contemporary figurative artist from Turkey, now based in New Orleans, uses oil, pastel & charcoal portraits to capture the profound layers of human experience within everyday life.
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