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 the study of anatomy and an understanding of how to report three-dimensional figures onto two-dimensional surfaces. Recording the countenance, motion, and character of their sitters, artists relied at once 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. There are three live demonstrations with a duration of 1h30' each, plus extensive individual guidance and feedback exchange between one session and the next , so that you may further your drawing and painting skills, and increase your awareness of, and control over, your creative powers,. You will have time to practise at your own pace, the entire course takes one month.
Online via zoom link
Next course: in early 2022.
You have the option of ordering the following materials at an additional cost of £65 (postage in the UK included): a set of 3 pastel crayons hand-made with historical materials, similar to those used by 18th-century masters, a small vellum ground (15x20cm) primed with methods and materials similar to Jean-Étienne Liotard's.
For early modern and modern European painters, portraiture required the study of anatomy and an understanding of how to report three-dimensional figures onto two-dimensional surfaces. Recording the countenance, motion, and character of their sitters, artists relied at once 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. There are three live demonstrations with a duration of 1h30' each, plus extensive individual guidance and feedback exchange between one session and the next , so that you may further your drawing and painting skills, and increase your awareness of, and control over, your creative powers,. You will have time to practise at your own pace, the entire course takes one month.
Online via zoom link
Next course: in early 2022.
You have the option of ordering the following materials at an additional cost of £65 (postage in the UK included): a set of 3 pastel crayons hand-made with historical materials, similar to those used by 18th-century masters, a small vellum ground (15x20cm) primed with methods and materials similar to Jean-Étienne Liotard's.