In the six-three-hour oil painting sessions of this course we will paint few portraits from photographic references I will provide, and from Masters’ works, focusing on the method and technique and bringing each work to a finish, refining the painting technique and the quality of the final result.

We will paint using the direct painting technique, a fundamental technique that every artist should practice and master. We will paint using the limited palette, a fundamental method that permits to understand how to use chroma, temperature, value, tint and tone, and 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: alizarine crimson, cadmium red medium ultramarine blue, cobalt blue cadmiu yellow lemon, cadmium yellow, yellow ochre, raw umber, Venetian red, burnt sienna, burnt umber, black, white.
• 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.
• Canvas or canvas boards size 12”by 16”, or so.

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