Expressive Portraiture (Online Course) Fall 2024 w/ Isabel Garmon

November 4 to December 2 (Mondays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time

**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.

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DEMO: https://youtu.be/L33LJRuSPME

Course Description

In this course we will work through our capacity to create oil painting portraits using our own creative language to tell a unique story. The importance of working through references and not to be a slave of them is something primary to being a painter who wants to make art with a specific voice. You, as an artist, have a mission and it is to “find you” and discover what art you want to make.

I am going to show you a method where to develop clearly how to express your own voice starting with a drawing on paper and transferring it to the canvas to paint it in oil using a step by step really easy to learn.

Course Outline

Week 1 -

Presentation of each one. Brain storming of sketches. The drawing of the painting in paper using a photo reference.

Week 2 -

Transferring the drawing to a canvas. Starting the painting. First session.

Week 3 -

Second session of the painting. General tones. Explaining the color palette.

Week 4 -

Third session of the painting. Specific tones.

Week 5 -

Fourth session of the painting. Impasto and finishing.

Course Materials List

Drawing:

Charcoal

White chalk

Eraser

Toned paper

Painting:

Oil colors :

Titanium White

Cadmium Yellow Light

Yellow Ochre

Cadmium Red

Alizarin Crimson

Ultramarine Blue

Mediums:

Turpentine

Linseed oil

Others:

Palette knife

Brushes

Palette