Mastering Structure and Color in the Portrait with Manu Saluja

Mastering Structure and Color in the Portrait with Manu Saluja

Workshop | This program is completed

200 Port Washington Blvd. Manhasset, NY 11030 United States

Indoor/Outdoor

ALL

3/9/2024-3/10/2024

10:00 AM-4:00 PM on Sun Sat

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$525.00 USD

$490.00 USD

Have you ever struggled to capture a person’s resemblance when drawing or painting a portrait? Award winning artist Manu Saluja will teach key strategies of gesture, proportion, and color mixing while working from the live model over two days.  
You will learn about the structure of the head and neck, how to translate light and shade into vibrant skin tones, and various approaches to neutralizing oil colors. Manu will give clear demonstrations, presentations and handouts guiding you through the process. While the workshop is geared towards the painted portrait in oil, the information is invaluable for all genres from landscape to figure painting. Demonstrations, lectures, and handouts included.  
All Levels Welcome.

  • Painting Mediums and Miscellaneous:

    • Value Scale to buy: https://ebay.to/3nMGION

    • Graphite pencil and kneaded eraser (if you are a beginner or prefer to draw with

    pencil on canvas)

    • 2 Palette Knives (triangular metal shaped, 2-3 inches long - more flexible, or

    bendable the better)

    • Gamsol (or a brand of Odorless Thinner - also called Odorless mineral spirits) (2.5 fl.

    oz. minimum size)

    • Refined Linseed Oil (2.5 fl. oz. minimum size)

    • Oil & Thinner Cups (small, clean food jars are fine)

    • Paper Towels

    • Clove Oil: (optional) 1oz with dropper minimum size see link below:

    https://www.amazon.com/HIQILI-Undiluted-Essential-Diffuser-Aromatherapy/dp/B0BR3LWF R2/ref=sr_1_9?crid=8SBLCFKFRKJD&keywords=clove+oil&qid=1698862460&sprefix=clov e+oil%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-9

    Canvas:

    • (1) 12x16 to 16x20 inch stretched and pre-primed LINEN canvas (or Frederick’s Blue Label Cotton or smooth cotton canvas)

    Oil Paints: recommended brands Williamsburg, Old Holland and Gamblin (37 ml tubes are fine)

    • Titanium White (37 or 150 ml)

    • Raw Umber

    • Ivory Black

    • Yellow Ochre Domestic (Williamsburg)

    • Naples Yellow

    • Cadmium Red Medium (Terra Rosa or Venetian Red also perfectly acceptable)

    • Quinacridone Magenta or Alizarin Crimson

    • Burnt Umber

    • Ultramarine Blue

    • Viridian Green


    Optional colors:

    • Cerulean Blue

    • Cadmium Yellow light or Lemon Yellow

    • Cadmium Orange

    • Cadmium Green

    • Dioxazine Purple

    Palette has three important components - if you can’t get all three, at least get the glass:

    • 12x16 inch glass palette (clear):

    • https://www.dickblick.com/items/new-wave-posh-glass-tabletop-palette-12-x-16-clear

    /

    • Richeson Grey Matters disposable paper palette pad:

    https://www.dickblick.com/items/03092-2506/

    •12x16 inch Masterson sta-wet palette seal box:

    https://www.dickblick.com/items/03020-0030/

    Brushes:

    • Soft synthetic brushes: 2-4 round brushes (size 2, 4), 6 flat brushes (2 in each size: 4, 6, 8). Recommended brand: Winsor & Newton Monarch $$-$$$ (or Blick Scholastic Wonder White $-$$)

    • Bristle brushes: 3-4 flat brushes (1 in each size: 6, 8, 10, 12), long handle for oil painting Recommended brands: Isabey specials, and Silverbrush Grand Prix

    *If you already have a variety of sizes and shapes of 4-6 brushes, and they are in good condition (not stiff or frayed too badly) then you can use them of course!

    For supply list specific questions please email Manu at manu@manusaluja.com


Saluja, Manu

Manu Saluja’s oil paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto,  the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin, and the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio.  Winner of the 2019 BP Portrait Travel Award, her resulting paintings were exhibited at the Aberdeen Art Gallery in Scotland in 2020. Her work is shown by 33 Contemporary in Chicago, Sugarlift in New York, and James Baird Gallery in Canada. She has been in numerous group shows, and has work in public and private collections in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and India. Her paintings have been featured in American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, Artists & Illustrators, the Huffington Post, and Fast Company Design.

Manu studied with John Frederick Murray privately and at the School of Visual Arts, receiving her BFA in 1997.  Manu received her MFA from the New York academy of Art in 2013, where she is currently Adjunct Professor of Painting.

Her current work shares narratives of women, diverse in age and lived experiences. At times the subjects serve as archetypes of the artist’s own personal narrative - reflecting on themes of femininity, familial bonds, cultural identity, and social perception. The figures are shown in ethereal environments based on Saluja’s lived experiences - inspired by childhood memories and spaces in and around her native city of New York.

Born in Brooklyn, and a long time resident of Queens, Manu’s studio and home are in Long Island, NY where she lives with her husband and two daughters.