Intro to Portrait Painting

Sundays 9 am — 12:30 pm (3.5 Hours)

6 classes: $475 (includes model fees)

Starts January 12, 2025

INSTRUCTOR:

Denise M. Fulton

Prerequisites:

Experience drawing from life is recommended and it helps if you have experience painting in oils.

Class Description:

This course is will introduce students to creating portraits in oil. There is a different model for each class, so you’ll get to paint a variety of faces.

Each class begins with a short instructor demo (~25 minutes), then the students start painting. The instructor works with students, as needed, throughout the class. There are group critiques at the half-way point and at the end of each class.  

In the first class, we do 2-color paintings and then more colors are introduced over the course of the session.

Supply List:

  • Canvas boards/panels/canvas paper.

    • (5) 9"x12"s or 12"x16"s

  • Palette

  • Steel palette knife (3" trowel)

  • Odorless mineral spirits (no smelly solvents). Gamsol and Turpenoid Natural are good less toxic solvents

  • Container for your mineral spirits

  • Paper towels (Viva brand is good) or rags

  • Small container of linseed or walnut oil

  • Brushes – assorted. Try hog and synthetic blend

    • Filbert 2, 4, 6, 8

    • Flat 2, 4, 6, 8

    • Round 2, 4, 6

  • Oil colors (please use professional grade)

    • Titanium white

    • Naples Yellow

    • Alizarin Crimson

    • Cadmium Red Light

    • Manganese Blue

    • Ultramarine blue

    • Transparent oxide red (sometimes called Transparent Earth Red)

    • Payne’s Grey