Course Objectives

Each participant will:

  • Be exposed to and understand an approach to drawing portraits, as a foundation for painting, or as an end result in itself.
  • Be able to represent a portrait in a drawing, to a reasonable degree of likeness by following the guidelines presented in the workshop.
  • Be able to represent a sense of structure and depth in a portrait representation through the use of tonal values.
  • Be able to apply warmer and cooler temperature pigments, as well as low and high intensity pigments, to enhance structure and depth beyond simple use of tonal values.

Note: The course is focused on drawing and painting portraits and is not a full workshop covering paint mixing, palette selection, and specific medium techniques for general painting.