Painting II: Drawing and Painting the Portrait
Instructor: Carol Wylie
Mondays 6:30-9:30pm
10 weeks: January 20 to March 31 (no class February 17)
Location: In-person Williams Bldg room 118
$387.50 (supplies not included) plus Model fees $90 (required)
Prerequisite: Drawing I or equivalent experience
Would you like to learn to capture resemblance in portraiture? Explore ways to create successful portrait drawings and/or paintings from a model, using the medium of your choice. Learn how to describe facial forms through understanding bone and muscle structure, and paying close attention to value, colour and energy. Continue to develop techniques you’ve learned through palette management and color mixing, alternative application techniques, use of mediums, etc. Create effective pictorial spaces and develop a critical assessment method for yourself. Over the course of 10 weeks, students will work 7-9 times from a live model.
Syllabus
Understand and demonstrate competency in:
• Accuracy in observation
• Use of line
• Use of Value
• Composition
• Facial anatomy
• Finding resemblance
• Use of contrast and/or colour
• Development of a critical eye
Supplies
Needed:
- Newsprint pad (large - 22 by 30 or thereabouts)
- Graphite pencils - at least one HB, one 3B, one 6B
- Willow charcoal
- Kneaded eraser
- Clips or masking tape (to hold paper on board)
- Small mirror for self-portrait
- Your painting materials & equipment that you already possess
Highly recommended:
- Two pieces better quality paper (like Stonehenge)
- Coloured conte crayon (colour of choice)
Optional:
- Coloured paper
- White conte or pencil
If painting or working in colour drawing media, Instructor will discuss materials options at first class.
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