Six-Part Online Workshop
This workshop is geared towards oil painters looking for new approaches to mixing flesh tones for their portraits and figures. In our six sessions, we’ll explore the strategies traditional oil painters use to choose their paints, to organize their palette, and to mix specific colours with accuracy and efficiency. Together, we’ll solve some common challenges such as painting shadows and highlights, controlling chroma, and accounting for environmental influences. We’ll review how to apply work with glazes, scumbles, and edges to create optical effects. During the workshop, participants will paint a small master copy of an Old Master portrait, applying the techniques learned in each session.
Workshop Dates and Times: Mondays 2-4 pm ET, starting Monday, June 15 and ending Monday, July 20.
Format: The course will be conducted on the Zoom platform and is a live online experience. Sessions will be recorded for viewing later. Students will work on a weekly assignment outside of class time and will submit images for critique in the following session.
Is this class for me? This workshop is geared towards intermediate-level oil painters. The colour theory and art history lessons will be applicable to artists who work in other media as well.
Location: on Zoom
Limit: 8 students
Application Deadline: Please register with Alan by June 8th.
Cost: $350 per person. $300 for FCA Toronto members.
Contact information: For more information and a detailed course outline, write to Alan directly at [email protected].
Workshop Outline
Week 1
- Hue, Value, and Chroma (thinking about the key properties of colour)
- Flesh Tones: Common Hues and Chromas
- Environmental Influences
Week 2
- Organizing Your Flesh Palette
- Mixing a Specific Colour with the Colour Bracketing Technique
- Mixing Strings of Flesh Tones
Week 3
- Controlling Chroma with Neutral Greys rather than Complementary Hues
- What Happens in the Shadows
- Highlights and the Chroma Path on Round Forms
Week 4
- Glazing
- Scumbling
- Edges
Week 5
- Optical Illusions
Week 6
- Collected Wisdom about Colour from Artists of the Ages