Overview
This fun and challenging one day workshop teaches you fundamental skills in drawing and painting a portrait from a photo. Students will be guided in leaning the basic proportions of a portrait and how to create volume through planar effects and tone. Students will learn how to mix a limited flesh colour palette and how to apply to there painting. Experienced and qualified art tutor and professional artist of over 15 years, Ochre Lawson, will guide you in learning new skills through demonstrations and looking at master portrait artists throughout history.
You will learn:
- How to lay out a pallet and tools for painting and drawing
- Skills in observing the features of a head and face
- How to draw basic proportions of a head and face
- How to create volume in a portrait painting through observing planes
- How to mix tone and apply on the portrait
- How to mix a limited flesh colour palette using acrylics or oils
- About different portrait master artists