Pastel Masterclass: Portrait
This course is designed to provide you with in-depth technical knowledge of the pastel medium applied to portrait painting, and enhance your powers of observation.
For early modern and modern European painters, portraiture required at once knowledge of anatomy and an understanding of how to represent three-dimensional subject matter onto two-dimensional surfaces. Recording the countenance, motion, and character of their sitters, artists relied on observation and rules of spatial representation. Learning to work in this way, you will experiment with materials used by 17th and 18th-centuries pastel masters.
Three live demonstrations, and tailored guidance and feedback between one session and the next will provide you with technical know-how, inspiration, and time to further your practice.
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You have the option of ordering the following materials, prepared with materials and methods used by 18th-century artists (£85, postage in the UK included): a 3-pastel crayons set, a primed vellum ground (15x20cm).