Flesh Tones Workshop at Village Arts of Putney Vermont

Description - Join ARC Living Master, Tina Garrett at the famed Village Arts of Putney as she shares with her students the practical methods she uses in her award-winning portraiture to help artists make the best paintings they’ve ever made. This workshop is perfect for anyone struggling with realistic portrait painting. Students will learn to see and simplify values, create form, and understand edges and chroma to control your composition and create dramatic portraiture using Tina’s practical and easy to use strategies. Students will study flesh tones in multiple lighting scenarios including varied ethnicities and 'under water’ light and painted faces. Tina will share her practical strategies to creating an accurate color palette, understanding values, temperature and how they create form as well as two simple techniques for accurate drawing with intensive study on how to master painting realistic (and yet artistic) noses, mouths and ears. Students will focus intently on the creation of an accurate palette. Tina will demonstrate the processes she employs in all her works, focusing on composition, values, chroma, edges, mark making, demonstrate how to control your palette for accurate values and color. DATES: JULY 14, 15 & 16 9AM TO 4PM DAILY LOCATION: VILLAGE ARTS OF PUTNEY Supply list and important info available upon registration.