Portrait Painting Workshop
Arrive 8:30 setup
Supplies: Easle, palette, paint for mixing skin tones, newsprint, drawing board and clips pastel paper, conte, backdrop, light
Model?
Copies to hand out: Head proportional drawing, palette colours
Introduction: 9:00
How to mix skin tones with limited palette
Focus is on proportioning the subject correctly, light and shadow, approximating skin tones, looking for colours that are tonally correct, blues, greens violet etc.
Demonstration of painting or drawing to proportion head and shoulders
Blocking in tonal areas, looking for details
9:15
Begin with quick sketches to get warmed up:
5 – 5 second
3 – 10 second
3 – 30 second
3 – 2 minute
2 – 5 minute
2 – 30 minute sketches
Break 10:30 – 10:45
1 hour sketch to finish at 11:45, clean up, 12:00