Create a whimsical, Chagall-inspired painting this Valentine’s season, featuring floating, romantic figures and fantastical scenes that celebrate love, memory, and imagination.
Learn the styles of six different painters: Fayum portraits, Frank Auerback, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Alex Katz, and Luc Tuymans, and paint six self-portraits, using a mirror. Learning to paint in their style will help you flex your creative muscle and try yourself at Contemporary Realism in three different styles, Abstract Expressionism, Symbolism, Minimalism, and mixed media. Learn art history and discover new artists while making a very personal polyptych. This course will open up a new world for you - the world of portraiture.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed although drawing experience will be helpful.
Perspective is all around us, but it makes itself invisible to the untrained eye. This is one skill that is close to impossible to grasp on your own because perspective is surprisingly counterintuitive in some of its parts. We are here to demystify perspective and show you the secrets to avoiding mistakes that even the great masters made.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed.
Learning how to paint a costumed model is an exciting and challenging process. Clothes add color, character, texture, pattern, and rhythm to the subject. Learn how to depict fabrics, folds that hug the body, patterns, as well as gloves, hats, and shoes. For those who are interested in getting portrait commissions, this is the opportunity to learn how to do it with this step-by-step guidance.
