Portraiture

Course Outline

This short introduction course to portraiture will lead you through painting a portrait, breaking it down into various component parts. Looking, drawing, preparing an underpainting. Working with structure, light, dark and colour. 

We will use a small selection of portraits by some master artists to copy and learn these various techniques from and see how previous artists have approached this subject.  

We will use non toxic thinners like 'Zest It' or 'Sansodor' and begin with a limited 'Zorn' palette in terms of colour: titanium white, yellow ochre, vermillion and ivory black.