The next Portraiture Demonstration/Workshop Day will be held on Saturday August 2012 in the studio at, Sutton, @ 11am -3.00pm
Total Cost €60 including light lunch & notes.
A beautiful model whom I painted in the premier coup technique
whilst studying
portraiture in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
She has a beautiful swan like neck and lovely strong features.
Cliona 20" x
24" oil on canvass
The day starts at 10.45am
and there is a short talk on Portraiture and the elements therein to create a
life painting which will give fresh spontaneous
look.
I demonstrate the colours
required for the skin tones and how to lay out and mix from light, halftones to
dark on the palette.
Then I give a short demonstration using 'wet into wet 'oil painting technique.
Then all artists will do a
portrait with the knowledge they will have gained and there will be plenty of
guidance.
What to bring; Your
canvass (usually 20" x 16" or larger, paints, sable flats & small
brushes for finer detail and fan brush (for hair) your paints &
mixing mediums,
digital camera for reference, apron, baby wipes.
It’s a great day, very informative and
social including a light lunch break.tables & easels provided for eight Artists.
The total cost is €50 per Artist including light lunch and notes.
give your name to
Yvonne LK on 086 8980708 or email; dublinyvonne@eircom.net to join in or ask any questions.
Roisin modelling for portraiture Demo/workshop day
Skin tone colour’s
White / Windsor Naples Yellow / Windsor Yellow Ochre, cadmimum
red (to add warmth to base skin tone colour)
then cereulean blue/ sap green/ burnt sienna,/burnt
umber/ raw umber
The base skin tone colour is usually made
up of naples
yellow with a tenth of cadmium red.
For darker base skin tone, yellow ochre can be used with a tenth of
cadmium red, and can
be mixed with white or lighter base skin tone colour.
To lighten -add white to the base skin tone colour to lighten, dragging each lighter tone beside and
overlapping previous mixed tonal base colour. This will ensure you have lots of
tones to work from.
The darks can be warm or cool as desired and can be forked when mixing
on palette dragging each darker tone
beside and overlapping previous mixed tonal colour as follows;-
The Cool darks are a combination of base
skin tone colour mixed with cereulean blue, or sap green or a mixture of both.
The warm darks consist of the base skin
tone colour mixed with Burnt sienna, Burnt Umber,
Raw Umber =Almost Black (1/2 pence piece size)
Hints; mixing colours on
palette
Use a
palette knife to mix colours.
Place
colours from light to dark on palette,
Mix
large amount of base colour
When
mixing into base colour always mix to the side, dragging each lighter tone (or darker ) beside and overlapping previous
mixed tonal base colournot into the
full mixture and this is same for all tonal mixing as the more tones you
have on your palette the better quality medium tone there will be on your
canvass supporting the light (and avoid time
delay mixing when the sitter is there.)
A few more hints;-
·
Be
careful with Eyebrows as they Frame the Face. Go light at first, then build up
on colour,
use good shape – like a boomerang, not so close to the eye to
lose the brow of the eye
·
'Wet into
Wet' is forgiving – Change is possible.
·
White
of the eye is not vibrant white.
·
Highlights
are Vibrant/Pure White, Placed to the right or left of pupil,
·
depending
on light source and placement of light on subject.
Mouth & lips
Do as you would do
lipstick – give proper lips – it won’t alter likeness
Look for the Design
of Mouth which is made up of muscle holding true to cupids bow. Put on lip
colour as if putting on lipstick and darks
to the corner edges. Mix lip colour with a little skin tone colour to get
natural lip colour and add more red to intensify the centre of the pout.
Lips when viewed
in three quarters or side view can have a v shape. .
Nose:Is done by shading using lighter colour along shaft
completed by touch of highlight usually at point before decent.
Hair: Darks at Edge of Face.
Hair should be (see below)
Dark ▓
Light ▒
Dark ▓
Pull the colours
into each other using a fan brush. Touch
up strands with Soft White.
Ears:Don’t Hone in on Ears – No need for detail – Less is
more.
Amazingly, don’t forget that your brain is painting
this person with the help of your hands. There are no technical artifacts such
as cameras coming between you and the subject. This will always intrigue
Artists and people at the dexterity and wonder of the brain, to be able to
reproduce before him the most noble of creations – a human face with all its
complexities and beauty – without any artificial aids, What a wonderful release
– throw away those cameras and let the art come through. Give your noble brain a chance to develop this
wonder.
