Tuesday Portrait Painting

This is an ideal class for beginner-intermediate students who want to learn a step-by-step process on how to make a portrait painting. The class will cover color combination, form, texture, composition, and the use of brushes and other painting tools.
In the first class, the instructor is going to explain the process that students will follow using a reproduction of Andre Derain’s image as a visual reference. The students will learn how to draw the portrait on the canvas, making a previous sketch first, following a step by step process of drawing a frontal portrait, learning to apply the concepts of symmetry, proportions, comparisons and measurements. Once they finish with the drawing, they are going to focus on how to set up the palette, mixing and blending some colors and how to start the color background.
In the second-class students are going to learn; how to apply the paint according to the shapes and forms of the face, modulating tones and colors, light and shadows, color application and comparisons, how to represent the different features of the face, sense of unity and balance of the composition and final details.
Students are going to have constant evaluation and guidance during the class while they are painting. Every time the instructor makes a demonstration, showing how to paint an area of the painting, the students are going to do the practice following it and once that part is finished, they will have an evaluation. This will be the process until the painting is completed, then a final critique will take place to review all the things they learned, what they did correctly and what things need modification before the end of the class.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Pablo Contrisciani earned his Masters in Fine Arts, Painting at Facultad de Bellas Artes, National University of La Plata, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. His work forms part of public and corporate collections from USA, Latin America and Europe. Pablo is an Oolite Arts alumnus (1998-2006 and 2010-2015) and works as a painting instructor since 1998.