William Merritt Chase: Woman in a Black Hat  1912

William Merritt Chase: Woman in a Black Hat 1912

William Merritt Chase was a contemporary of John Singer Sargent. Chase's School of Art morphed into The Parsons School of Design, one of the pre-eminent art colleges in the US.

Your training gathers significant steam. Your palette is expanded to nine colors and you'll be introduced to the entire progression of painting a portrait from start to finish.

Whereas Beginning Portrait Painting focused on the Ebauche, the initial construction of painting, Woman in a Black Hat takes you significantly further into the passages (Pentimenti) of painting where you will learn how to strengthen and refine facial structure while acquiring the language of Bravura painting. This is why we copy master paintings.

You will learn how to mix realist flesh tones using color theory and applying your brush strokes with a sympathetic concordance to the underlying anatomical form. That is the essence of Bravura.

William Merritt Chase: Woman in a Black Hat  1912