Portrait Painting C
Adult Course | Registration opens 3/4/2025 7:00 AM MST
In this course, students will learn to paint a developed portrait of the human head from life. Utilizing longer poses, students will have an opportunity to investigate the forms of the head alongside color. Painting alongside students, the instructor will demonstrate a direct approach that emphasizes light and form using a controlled palette and expands into higher chroma as poses progress.
Materials:
Brushes: Bristle Brush Filberts size 3(x2) and oil synthetic or soft hair rounds size 3 and 2.
Silver grand Prix and Blick Masterstroke recommended for bristles. Monarchs recommended for soft hair.
Canvas: No larger than 16x20 and no smaller than 9x12. I recommend if working smaller to use canvas panels or masonite. All surfaces must be toned a neutral gray.
Oil Pigments: Lead White, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Perm. Alizarin Crimson, Perylene Red, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Orange, Raw Sienna, Cadmium Yellow, Cinnabar Green (optional) Viridian, Ultramarine Blue, Ivory Black
Jar with sealable lid for solvent (Odorless Mineral Spirits)
Linseed oil
Retouch varnish
- Prefer life drawing experience and experience working in oils
- Materials:
Brushes: Bristle Brush Filberts size 3(x2) and oil synthetic or soft hair rounds size 3 and 2.
Silver grand Prix and Blick Masterstroke recommended for bristles. Monarchs recommended for soft hair.
Canvas: No larger than 16x20 and no smaller than 9x12. I recommend if working smaller to use canvas panels or masonite. All surfaces must be toned a neutral gray.
Oil Pigments: Lead White, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Perm. Alizarin Crimson, Perylene Red, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Orange, Raw Sienna, Cadmium Yellow, Cinnabar Green (optional) Viridian, Ultramarine Blue, Ivory Black
Jar with sealable lid for solvent (Odorless Mineral Spirits)
Linseed oil
Retouch varnish
Alexander Soukas
Alexander Soukas' serious training in the fine arts began upon attending the Walnut Hill School for the arts, one of five high schools in the United States dedicated to rigorous training in music, ballet, theatre, writing, and visual arts. Unsatisfied with his studies, and desiring to pursue a career as an artist, he began homeschooling as a way of earning his diploma while undertaking an apprenticeship with realist figure painter Jason Polins. Soukas studied traditional painting and drawing in Boston with Polins for 4 years, where he now visits as a guest instructor at Polins' atelier, The Boston School of Painting. Years later, Soukas studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a coordinated program with the University of Pennsylvania for a year before leaving to seek a more rigorous classical training at Studio Incamminati. While there, he worked for and studied under Nelson Shanks as one of his last apprentices. https://www.alexandersoukas.com/