25 May 2024
Mike Hamilton will lead a workshop on portraiture in oil, watercolour or pencil for Paint and Palette on 25 May. Please arrive at 8.30 am to start at 9am.
Workshop Overview
This workshop will cover:
- Principles of portrait drawing and painting, including proportion, anatomy
- How to select references
- How to capture the likeness of the subject
- How to use shading techniques
- Colour values
- Colour temperature
- Colour intensity
- Create a sense of volume and form in the portrait.
Workshop Objective
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 workshop 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.
Principles in various media will be covered – each participant will work in their own medium of choice.
Refreshments: Tea and coffee with biscuits will be available. Please bring a packed lunch and a cooldrink.
Materials: A list of materials will be sent to you once you have paid.
Cost: R500 for members, R800 for non-members (that is R300 membership + R500 workshop). Places will only be reserved with prior payment. NO cash or payments will be received on the day of the workshop. Only 12 places are available.
Banking details: Paint and Palette, Nedbank savings,
Branch code 192 505, Account 292 505 1553,
Reference your full name please. SMS to Danuta as below.
Should you have any queries please contact Danuta on 082 771 2240.