Figure drawing starts Thursday, February 4th; portrait painting alla prima and advanced painting start Saturday, February 6th. Reserve your place today. In addition: you are invited to join me for a free lecture on Saturday, February 6th at 15:00. For all details, please visit our Courses page.
The first student show since 2010 will be held this Sunday, December 13th from 18:00 to 21:00 at Studio Soderini, Via Fulcieri Paulucci de Calboli, 20 E in Prati.
Program Update:
Finally, remember that even if you can’t join us in the Fall, but were able to be with us in the Spring or Summer, you are invited to participate in our end-of-the-year show on December 13th. More details to follow.
Cheers,
Tim
Registration is now open. For all details, please visit our website.
The weekend workshop will take place on site at the medieval mountaintop fortress known as Rocca Calascio in the Apennine mountains in Abruzzo. Sign up by May 15th!
If you have been thinking about signing up for one of the courses, now is the time. The number of places left for each:
For more information, please visit our Courses page.
I hope to see you in studio.
Cheers,
Tim
Find out more on the website. If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. I hope to see you in the studio. Tim
In the Spring of 2014, the focus of Saturday morning’s portrait painting class was a series of three portraits with the model Andreina Mehtab. Each began with a study of a sphere using multiple layers of paint over a varying ground color—one the natural color of the canvas, one an Earth orange mixed from Venetian Red and Terra Gialla and the last a darker ground—a process that was then repeated for each portrait.
Two truisms emerged:
The gallery below shows a start and subsequent evolution. There is a simplicity and economy in the start of the portrait that is lost over time. The one benefit to a promising start is that it may inspire you to keep pushing. It did for me, and, at the end of the course, I brought Andreina into my own studio to try and bring the work to a satisfactory conclusion. This too proved to be more of a challenge than I had anticipated… but good to revel in the fight as much as the result.
You can see the final result on my website.
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