Portrait Painting Holiday

What you will learn

• Select and take good source photographs for portraiture

• Work from a direct subject

• Prime and prepare our canvas

• Set up an oil painting palette and organise your working space

• Mix solutions for oil painting

• Mix a range of colours and tones to create realistic flesh tones.

• Create an underpainting using principals from the Masters

• How to block in tonal areas and understand the planes of the face

• Use a range of techniques to add detail, including glazing techniques

• Create a portrait to take home