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April 29 - June 10

$300

Portrait Painting from a Live Model

Spring Session Dates: April 29, May 13 & 20, June 3 & 10 |  4:15-7:15pm

[Prerequisite: Teacher Recommendation]

In these five Mondays, students will paint the portrait from a live model.  Our model will pose the same each class so students can develop the long study.  We will practice building the portrait in five steps, from open to closed grisaille, and transitioning into full color.  Students will learn how to go back into a dry painting and block in all over again in order to expand the value range and further shape develop. Students will have the opportunity to attempt finishing the facial features.
Model fees are separate and will be divided by the students equally.
Supply fee is $36, includes one 20 X 16 inch toned gray canvas, solvent, paper towels, one Silver Grand Prix filbert brush and palette paper.  Students are required to bring their own artists oil colors.


About the Artist Instructor Michela Mansuino —Michela graduated in 2017 from Studio Incamminati, an atelier for the study of humanist realism in Philadelphia. Her awards are numerous, including the Maggie Price and Jack Richeson Scholarship Award for 2014 -15, the Studio Incamminati Scholarship Award, and the D. Colman Witte Scholarship for the 2015-16 & 2016-17 Academic Years. Michela continues to teach at The Arts of Great Falls School and in Philadelphia.  In December 2016, Michela was selected by The Arts Council of Fairfax County as one of three talented Fairfax County artists with extensive arts education experience for the FY17 Artist Residencies in Middle Schools program.  Website

Supplies —
3B or 5B graphite pencils, really anything will be fine
18 X 24 inch paper or a sketchbook to draw in two gray toned 16 X 20 inch canvas pad sheets, or similar one 16 X 20 gray toned, stretched canvas

Oil Paints
Burnt Sienna
Alizarin Crimson
Permanent Rose
Perlyene Red
Cad Red Deep
Cadmium Red Medium
Cad Scarlet
Cad Orange
Indian Yellow
Raw Sienna
Cad Yellow Medium
Cad Yellow Pale
Cad Green Pale
Vasari Green
Viridian
Pthalo Green
Cerulean
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Dioxazine Purple
Quanacridone Magenta
Titanium White and/or Cremnitz White

16 X 20 inch toned canvas pad sheets by Fredrix or Dick Blick with a support, or 12 X 16 inch stretched canvases, toned with Golden Acrylic N6 Neutral Gray

two #6 brushes, by Grand Prix, Silver, long and/or extra long filbert
two #4 brushes, by Grand Prix, Silver, long and/or extra long filbert
Gamsol/Turp jar with lid
Stand Oil
Small container for medium mixture
16 X 20 inches mixing Palette (treated/seasoned already) the larger the better
Two Palette Knives, one for painting, one for mixing
Viva paper towels

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Details

Start:
April 29
End:
June 10
Cost:
$300
Website:
www.greatfallsart.org

Organizer

The Arts of Great Falls
Phone:
703-232-1575
Email:
school@greatfallsart.org
Website:
www.greatfallsart.org

Venue

The Arts of Great Falls School
756 Walker Road
Great Falls, VA 22066 United States + Google Map
Phone:
703-232-1575
Website:
www.greatfallsart.org