Beginning Portrait Painting
John Singer Sargent’s portrait study of Rosina Ferrera (Capri Woman) is an excellent starting point for the beginning portraitist. It proffers a solid planar structure that is accessible to the beginner’s understanding of facial form.
Here you will learn to draw with the brush, foregoing the restrictions imposed by a preliminary drawing, and to block in the primary light/dark pattern.
From there you will learn how to 'serve it up in the abstract', following Sargent's curriculum of developing the ebauche with three half-tones and constructing the planar forms seeing through the eyes of a sculptor
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400 - MODULE 4 : beginning portrait painting : syllabus & supply list.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 1 : the arabesque
The introduction. Preparing the imprimaturi. And striking the arabesque.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting : Part 2 : blocking-in the primary light/dark pattern.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 3 : mixing the initial three half-tones with a limited palette of four colors.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 4 : the ebauche is the initial, dead, coloring in vis-a-vis window-shading.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 5 : the ebauche continued.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 6 : pentimento is derived from the Italian pentirsi (meaning to repent). Corrections are made and the painting progresses. 1 of 5 parts.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 7 : the pentimento continues. 2 of 5 parts.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 8 : the pentimento continues. 3 of 5 parts.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 9 : the pentimento continues. 4 of 5 parts.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 10 : the pentimento continues. 5 of 5 parts.
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MODULE 4 : Beginning Portrait Painting: Part 11 : the finire - going for the full stretch from light to dark and cool to warm.
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