Addressing the Figure w/Anne Graham

This Course is designed to help you develop the skills needed to paint a portrait and achieve a likeness of your subject, working either in a traditional or contemporary style. Focus will be on observation, composition, and color with an emphasis on skin tones as well as learning to translate the various planes of color and light that are so important in painting the figure.

Pastel or Oil

Materials list

STUDENTS WORKING IN OIL

BRUSHES:

Filbert: size 12/6/2 and or Flat: 10/6/2

Any favorite brushes suitable for oil paint

PAINT: (I recommend either Winsor Newton artist quality or Gamblin)

Titanium white

Cadmium yellow pale/light

Cadmium red

Alizarin crimson

Transparent Earth Orange

Yellow Ochre light or medium

Ultramarine blue

Dioxazine Purple

Raw umber

Pre-stretched and primed canvas, or primed board.

Glass or disposable palette

2 x palette knives

Gamsol or other odorless solvent

Painting medium or refined linseed oil (optional)

Paint well or jar for solvent

Paper towels

STUDENTS WORKING IN PASTEL

PASTEL PAPER Canson (possibly a good choice for those less experienced)

U-Art sanded

Pastelmat

PASTELS Many brands offer sets (some specifically for portraiture)

Nupastel (hard)

Rembrandt (medium)

Unison (soft)

Sennilier (very soft)

Richeson (very soft)

Schmincke (very soft)

Terry Ludwig (Very soft)

charcoal

Kneaded eraser