Portrait Painting: Full Color
Adult Course | Registration opens 8/5/2025 10:00 AM MDT
This class picks up where “Portrait Painting: Anatomy and Form” left off, but can also be taken as a stand alone class on color theory as it relates to the portrait.
In this class, you will be introduced to a full prismatic palette, and become well acquainted with several different pigments and how they interact. Just like the previous class, this session will emphasize practicing many starts aimed at capturing the color of the light, as well as the colors of the model and its environment.
By doing multiple studies under different lighting conditions, you will unlock the color potential in your paintings to not just tell a story about the colors of the face, but of the light itself.
Some experience drawing from life is encouraged but not required. Experience working with oils is highly encouraged.
- Materials:
16x20 cotton duck canvas
Bristle Filbert brush 2 each size 4, and 2
2 inch chip brush or house painting brush
Professional Grade Artist’s Oil Paint 37ml tube of the following colors
Burnt umber
Burnt sienna
Permanent Alizarin Crimson
Permanent rose
Cadmium red
Cadmium scarlet
Cadmium orange
Cadmium yellow
Cadmium green or Permanent green light
Pthalo turquoise
Sevres blue
Ultramarine blue
Dioxazine purple
Ivory black
Titanium white
Meininger's neutral gray acrylic gesso squeeze tube
A brush washing jar with sealable lid
Odorless mineral spirits
Paper towels
Palette - a neutral brown sealed wooden palette or glass palette
Palette knife
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/