INTRO TO DRAWING/PAINTING PORTRAITS

INTRO TO DRAWING/PAINTING PORTRAITS

Workshop | This program is completed

37 Buena Vista Road West Hartford, CT 06107 United States

Upper Schoolhouse (Brick Building)

Beginning - Intermediate

3/17/2019 (one day)

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

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$109.00

$89.00

Learn the beginnings of creating a realistic portrait as you are introduced to foundational concepts on how to draw and paint the human face. In this workshop students will develop the skills necessary to render the portrait accurately and to mix realistic skin colors.
This is a studio workshop designed by demonstration, studio-work and individual development. This workshop is to explore, experiment, and become familiar with the representational approach to portrait painting. Students will understand and successfully implement formal elements of art such as form, value, and color into a two-dimensional format.

  • $10 will be collected upfront at the workshop to pay for the model fee during the session
  • Oil painting colors:
  • IVORY BACK
  • TITANIUM WHITE
  • VENITIAN RED
  • YELLOW OCHRE
  • RAW UMBER
  • ALIZARIN CRIMSON
  • Other materials:
  • PAINT BRUSHES # 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12 (natural or synthetic hair)
  • FOUR CANVASES (9”x12”) OR LARGER
  • METAL PAINTING KNIFE (2 inches triangular tip)
  • PAINTING PALETTE (disposable)
  • 2 SMALL CONTAINERS
  • MEDIUM (LIQUIN- original)
  • ODORLESS PAINT THINNER
  • PAPER TOWELS
  • DRAWING PAPER SIZE (9”x12”) OR LARGER
  • PENCIL # 2B
  • KNEADED ERASER
  • RULER 12” (CLEAR)
  • PENCIL SHARPENER
  • DRAWING BOARD
  • MASKING TAPE

Tiago Finato moved to the United States from Brazil in the year 2000 to further his research in the field of painting. First trained in the 19th century French academic style, Tiago went on to earn a BFA from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an MFA from New Mexico State University. In his work, Tiago explores the overlap between the labor of contemporary art and the labor of the working class. His current body of work narrates a scenario where the subject is caught between these two conflicting ideologies, those of a manual laborer and a fine artist. Finato has exhibited his work throughout the United States, Spain and Brazil. Tiago just had two pieces accepted in the Portrait Society of America members only competition. His portrait placed as a finalist, and his still life placed 2nd.