The Power of Shapes
Unconventional Portrait
This class was originally part of the year long course, Paint Your Heart and Soul. I am now offering this lesson as a stand alone lesson, which will guide you in painting a female portrait using unconventional skin tones and focusing on shapes, which will create a loose portrait.
What will you Learn?
Color mixing using a limited palette of acrylic paints that provide a cohesive color tones for a portrait painting.
How to use acrylic retarder as a way to extend the dry time (open time) of your paint.
How to draw loose facial proportions that allow for free creation.
Use of unconventional skin tones to create dramatic facial features.
How shapes and line work add suggestions of objects to engage the viewer.
Use paint with limited brush blending ignore to establish facial structures.
And how to use lost and found edges that will give a finished feel to your painting.
Class Objective
At the end of this class, you will understand how mixing your acrylic paints with acrylic mediums can provide more freedom in your decision making, by removing time restrains.
You will have built your confidence in creating a looser painting.
And you will be able, for future paintings, to focus more on the shapes of a painting rather than what you think you see.
