Aimed at beginners and improvers.
This workshop is aimed at those who don't often attempt portraiture but do use oils, acrylics, gouache, watercolour or pastels.
Portraits usually take longer than 5 hours, so in this 5-hour workshop we’ll short-cut the initial drawing process and concentrate on painting and colour, eg. representing the fall of light & shade across your chosen face, and mixing skin and hair colours.
Each tricky aspect of painting a portrait Bill will demystify and demonstrate (briefly).
You may chose a face of someone close to you to paint, or someone you’ve never met (which does away with approval anxiety!).
Although the day won’t be spent practicing drawing, later on we will stand back from our painting and check for drawing and likeness errors.
Bill's own paintings can be seen at …. https://www.billguilding.co.uk/
Members £40; Click HERE to book your seat.
Materials to bring:
A3 photo ….dramatic lighting of figure with simple background.
Bill will supply some good shots to use too!
Your usual painting equipment including a small fine pointed brush, a soft pencil and eraser.
Particularly useful colours: Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, a bright orange, and of course white.
Oil painters also bring: A3 canvas or painting paper, and low-odour thinners – not turpentine or white spirit please.
Acrylic painters also bring: A3 canvas, painting paper, grey cardboard or heavy paper (c.300gsm)
Watercolourists also bring: A3 white water-colour paper ready stretched, or very heavy ie. at least
300gsm plus masking tape.
Pastelists bring: A3 pastel paper, or as a cheaper alternative eg. sugar paper or even wall-lining paper. But not smooth drawing paper.
Pastel crayons/pencils are useful for tiny details eg. around the eyes.
A fine-tip erasing device, eg. a Tombow MonoZero propelling eraser.
Everyone except watercolourists: Choose whether you want to work on a coloured or white substrate and come prepared accordingly. Both are fine – it’s a matter of style and look. A dull colour is safer than a bright one.