Introduction to Drawing and Painting the Portrait - 4 sessions - January

Introduction to drawing and painting the portrait is a perfect way to develop or refine your portrait drawing/painting skills to achieve a likeness to your subject. In this series, we will draw and paint portraits from a live model each week while learning fundamental concepts and tools to portray realistic portraits. No experience is required for this class. We will start our journey into portraiture with charcoal and paper, moving into oil (or acrylic if preferred) paints using a monochrome palette, next introducing the Zorn palette, and finally giving free reign to use the color palette that best suits you!

This class is 4 sessions long on Thursdays from 6-9 PM from 1/9 through 1/30/2025. Each class is $45 and the series is $180 total for all four classes.

Please contact [email protected] or 614-572-5522 with questions.

Materials with be available for use, but it is encouraged that students invest in their preferred materials.

Drawing Materials (week 1)

• Vine charcoal
• Compressed charcoal
• Charcoal pencils - white (others as preferred)
• Kneaded eraser
• Drawing paper or newsprint
• Toned gray or tan paper

Oil Painting Materials (weeks 2-4)

• Gamsol—this is the ONLY paint thinner permitted in class
• Container with closing lid

• Recommend a mix of bristle brushes and softer synthetic (I use a mix of Rosemary & Co. and Princeton value brushes)
• Palette knife (shorter knives are easier to control, longer knives are good for edges)
• Glass palette preferred—toned neutral gray
• Blue shop towels

Artist grade paints (I use a mix of Gamblin, Windsor & Newton primarily)

• Titanium white
• Cadmium lemon
• Cadmium yellow medium
• Yellow ochre
• Burnt sienna
• Cadmium red medium
• Alizarin crimson
• Quinacridone magenta
• Raw umber
• Ultramarine blue
• Cerulean blue
• Ivory black (only used for Zorn palette)

Host or Publisher Terra Gallery