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**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
Throughout this 5-week course, participants will work through a series of exercises addressing ways of painting the human head as a solid volumetric form. We will focus on topics including internal relationships, edges, figure/ground and the connection between color and light, among others. Participants may work from instructor-provided photo sources or their own. If participants have access to life models, they may work from life as well.
We will meet virtually once a week via Zoom for topic overviews, instructor demonstrations, slide presentations and group discussions. During our meetings we will discuss technical and conceptual ideas and review historical and contemporary examples pertaining to each week’s topic. Individual critiques will be conducted over Padlet and will be supplemented by class discussions each week.
Some basic familiarity with oil paint will be useful.
Week 1: Internal relationships and proportion
Week 2: Finding a color key
Week 3: Edges, figure/ground relationships
Week 4: Departing from the ‘reality’ of the source
Week 5: Placement in the rectangle
(if there is another palette you are most comfortable with, by all means use it. Likewise, substitutes here and there are acceptable as well) Artist grade paint. I use mostly RGH, but any brand you prefer will be fine.
titanium white
cadmium yellow lemon (or light)
indian yellow
raw sienna
cadmium orange or pyrrole orange
cadmium red medium or pyrrole red
quinacridone red
alizarin crimson
quinacridone magenta
ultramarine blue
cobalt blue
phthalo green
-preferred painting medium (I use Gamblin solvent free liquid medium and CAS textured impasto medium)
-palette (hand held or table)
- suggested brushes
-flat bristle: #2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 at least one of each. One or two smaller soft rounds
-palette knife
-container with a lid for solvent or cleaning oil
-odorless mineral spirits or a brush cleaning oil (linseed, safflower, etc.)
-rags or paper towels
-Painting Surfaces: 5 surfaces primed for painting in oil- paper, canvases, panels, etc.
9”x 12” or larger
Optional materials:
-medium grit sandpaper
-gloves
-yard stick/straight edge
-apron/smock
-white of off-white artist tape
-sketchbook or drawing paper
-pencils and/or charcoal, eraser, pencil sharpener
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
Throughout this 5-week course, participants will work through a series of exercises addressing ways of painting the human head as a solid volumetric form. We will focus on topics including internal relationships, edges, figure/ground and the connection between color and light, among others. Participants may work from instructor-provided photo sources or their own. If participants have access to life models, they may work from life as well.
We will meet virtually once a week via Zoom for topic overviews, instructor demonstrations, slide presentations and group discussions. During our meetings we will discuss technical and conceptual ideas and review historical and contemporary examples pertaining to each week’s topic. Individual critiques will be conducted over Padlet and will be supplemented by class discussions each week.
Some basic familiarity with oil paint will be useful.
Week 1: Internal relationships and proportion
Week 2: Finding a color key
Week 3: Edges, figure/ground relationships
Week 4: Departing from the ‘reality’ of the source
Week 5: Placement in the rectangle
(if there is another palette you are most comfortable with, by all means use it. Likewise, substitutes here and there are acceptable as well) Artist grade paint. I use mostly RGH, but any brand you prefer will be fine.
titanium white
cadmium yellow lemon (or light)
indian yellow
raw sienna
cadmium orange or pyrrole orange
cadmium red medium or pyrrole red
quinacridone red
alizarin crimson
quinacridone magenta
ultramarine blue
cobalt blue
phthalo green
-preferred painting medium (I use Gamblin solvent free liquid medium and CAS textured impasto medium)
-palette (hand held or table)
- suggested brushes
-flat bristle: #2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 at least one of each. One or two smaller soft rounds
-palette knife
-container with a lid for solvent or cleaning oil
-odorless mineral spirits or a brush cleaning oil (linseed, safflower, etc.)
-rags or paper towels
-Painting Surfaces: 5 surfaces primed for painting in oil- paper, canvases, panels, etc.
9”x 12” or larger
Optional materials:
-medium grit sandpaper
-gloves
-yard stick/straight edge
-apron/smock
-white of off-white artist tape
-sketchbook or drawing paper
-pencils and/or charcoal, eraser, pencil sharpener