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Course Description

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This course is designed for the intermediate painter looking to improve their skill at painting the human face in acrylic or oil. Course topics include portrait drawing accuracy, flesh tone colour mixing, tonal values application, and under-painting techniques. Students are guided through surface techniques including brushwork, texture creation, composition, colour choices, as well as lessons on accurately depicting the nose, eyes, lips, ears, and hair. Studio work will be supported by demonstrations, critique, and presentations that explore contemporary examples of portrait painting.

This is an intermediate level course. Students should have previous experience drawing the human figure and head, and working with oil and/or acrylic paints.

All Continuing Studies students in classes with a life model must observe the Etiquette Rules for Working with a Life Model.
 


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Instructor Profile: Jennifer Wigmore
Jennifer’s practice spans figurative and abstract works and often explores the entanglements of art making and pedagogy. She teaches Intermediate Painting Studio: Portraiture and Art and Craft Fair Success: How to Sell Your Creative Work at the SCS.

 

 

Recommended Prerequisites

CSPD-N105 Drawing Skills Studio 1, CSPD-N110 Oil Painting Techniques or equivalent experience.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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