The Starting Methods in Portraiture Workshop

Description - ARC Living Master, Tina Garrett 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 portrait painting. If your portraits look cartoonish or dead, this is your workshop. If you struggle to capture a likeness in your portraiture, this is your workshop. If your portraits are tight and lifeless like photos, this is your workshop. Tina will demonstrate three oil painting starting methods including open grisaille, accurate color wash and Tina’s favorite, selective start, to help students discover the process that will help them achieve their best work. Students will learn to see and simplify values, create form, and understand edges and how to use them to create an illusion of movement and life in your work and teach you how to use chroma to control your composition and create dramatic portraiture using Tina’s practical and easy to use strategies. Demonstrating three different methods of oil painting, Tina will teach you how to organize your palette to mix realistic colors, values, and temperatures for different skin types as well as two easy strategies to achieve an accurate likeness in your portraiture. Each morning Tina will demonstrate and lecture. Each afternoon, Tina will work one-on-one with every artist helping them take steps from where they are towards mastery. Tina’s goal is to be as generous with her knowledge as possible, walking each student through the concepts so when artists leave her workshops, they are able to take their own painting to new heights. All levels welcome!