New! Gentle Elegance - Charcoal and Brush Portraiture for Beginners

New! Gentle Elegance - Charcoal and Brush Portraiture for Beginners

Adult Course | This program is completed

200 Grant St Denver, CO 80203 United States
A-01
Beginner
2/3/2024-3/9/2024
9:00 AM-12:00 PM MST on Sat
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$387.00
$328.95

New! Gentle Elegance - Charcoal and Brush Portraiture for Beginners

Adult Course | This program is completed

This charcoal class is the perfect introduction to the world of expressive artistry. In this course, I'll guide you through the fundamentals of using charcoal, paired with the finesse of brush techniques.

  • In this course, you'll get hands-on experience with charcoal and brushes, learning how to create evocative portraits step by step. We'll cover everything from the basics of portrait composition to techniques for capturing intricate facial details.
  • -18”x24” Charcoal paper pad
    -Willow charcoal (preferably thin sticks)
    -Compressed charcoal pencils and sticks
    - soft, medium, and hard -3” or 4” house painting brush (cheapest one you can find at the hardware store if you don’t already have one)
    -# 4 and # 10 acrylic or oil painting brush (from art store)
    -Kneaded eraser
    -Chamois cloth
Cristian Mora

To Cristian Mora, art is the search for truth and beauty in reality and imagination, in the natural and the unnatural, in the benign and the eldritch. A native of San Ramón, Costa Rica, he started painting rainforest scenes as a young child. His love to create only grew from there as he experimented with and discovered new styles and mediums. 

 

Working primarily in oils, Cristian incorporates a vast array of styles, subjects, and techniques, including Alla Prima work, plein air painting, city and landscapes, figure painting, and imaginative dark realism. He explores not only these but also other visual arts such as photography and digital media. 

 

Cristian’s studio is in Denver, CO, where he lives with his wife, Emily. He teaches at the Art Students League of Denver as well as private lessons. To see more of his work or to contact the artist, please visit cristianmora.com or follow @moraart on Instagram.