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Oil Portrait Foundation: Small Portraits in Oil #314

 

This oil painting foundation course, is designed for the artists that want to approach portraiture in oil. In the 6-3 hour sessions of this course, we will paint a few small portraits in oil, possibly one per session, working from photographic references of male and female models and from Masters’ works, focusing on the method and technique and bringing each work to a finish, developing and refining your painting technique and the quality of the final result. We will paint using the direct painting technique, a fundamental method that every artist should practice and master. We will paint using limited palettes, to better understand how to use chroma, temperature, value, tint and tone. A limited palette will permit us to focus on the essentials of color mixing and color theory, and eventually hive us access the a more extended palette to extend the chromatic effects in our paintings.

The participants of the course, will also be encouraged to work on an independent project: a portrait of a subject of their choice, a good way to start making personal aesthetic and technical choices, and put to work the notions discussed and practiced in class. Basic proportions of the head and positioning of the facial features, sketching in the subject, composition, color mixing, paint handling, materials, color theory, color blending.

Open to all levels.

Materials

  • Paint: We will start with this palette: Yellow ochre, transparent red oxide, permanent rose (or         alizarine crimson), ultramarine blue, , ivory black, zinc and titanium white (or lead white). More    colors will be added during the course of this class.
  • Canvas or canvas boards 12”by 10” or smaller.
  • A wooden, plastic, or disposable palette. If you buy a wooden palette, make sure it is treated with a few layers of linseed oil to prevent the untreated wood to soak up the oil from the paint. I can show you how to do this in class, but you’ll need a disposable or plastic palette for the first class.
  • A variety of brushes: hog and synthetic will do; Filbert or bright, #2, 6, 8, and 12 will do. You will also need a few round, synthetic brushes, #2 and 4. You can also use the colors that you already have and we will discuss about these materials in class.
  • Linseed oil (refined linseed oil will suffice), Galkid or Liquin, Turpenoid or other low odor solvent.
  • Compressed charcoal pencils in hard and medium gradations(B-2B). Good brands are General’s and Wolff’s carbon.
  • Rags or paper towels.
  • A metal cup for the medium and a palette knife.

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roberto osti
roberto osti
Roberto Osti teaches figure drawing and human anatomy for artists at the New York Academy of Art and the Saint Joseph University. Formally trained as a medical illustrator before becoming a fine artist, Osti has contributed his work to many science and art publications. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Europe and the United States. He is the author of Basic Human Anatomy (2016), an art instruction best seller and classic reference book, and Dynamic Human Anatomy (2021). His latest book , Drawing the Body has been released in December 2024.
Oil Portrait Foundation: Small Portraits in Oil #314
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