Portrait Painting In Oils - 2003
Portrait Painting In Oils - 2003
Online Class
Tuesdays, 7pm-10pm EST
Toby Hall, Instructor
Starts: April 5
Ends: May 17
6 classes (There will be no class on Tuesday, May 3)
Spring Session 1
All of our online classes are recorded and made available for viewing for the duration of the session. Thus, missed classes or time zone differentials are not a major concern. You can rewatch a given lesson as many times as you want within the session you are enrolled.
In this online class, students will explore Portrait Painting in Oils step by step over the duration of six meetings. The course will begin with an emphasis on portrait drawing with perceptual strategies as a foundation for an indirect painting process. From there, students will question, understand and begin to represent the light effect on the model by studying the biggest compositional relationships via value, chroma and hue. The drawing and the light effect will come together and evolve through the underpainting, the form painting, and finishing passes. Each meeting will consist of instructor demonstrations and constructive feedback for students throughout the course.
RECOMMENDED MATERIALS
Paint (Artists Grade - Gamblin, Holbein, Rembrandt, etc)
Limited palette. Contact me if you have questions or are interested in working with a more extended palette.
Titanium White
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Red Medium
Ultramarine Blue
Ivory Black
Vine Charcoal
Brushes
I prefer to use rounds - I have a variety of sizes (nothing too big for this course, unless you want to work large). A medium range should be fine. I like to have at least 3 of each size.
Support
My preference is portrait-grade linen, but that can get pricey. Stretched or mounted cotton canvas or an acrylic gesso primed panel is fine, as well. For studies, I like Canson's Canva Paper or Arches Oil Paper (scraps of linen can be useful too)
Board
Something like cardboard or masonite to tape studies to
Tape
I like black artists’ tape
Easel
Or something to prop up your support
Palette
Wood, Glass, etc. One that you can hold, or to lay flat - up to you.
Medium Jar
Something to keep your medium in (can be one that specifically clips on to your palette, or just a small regular glass jar)
Brush cleaner
Sealable container for cleaning brushes (with OMS)
Solvent
Odorless Mineral Spirits (OMS) - I use Gamsol
Oil for medium
Stand oil &/or linseed oil - I combine the two with OMS to make a medium
Palette knife
For cleaning palette and premixing paints
Sealable Tupperware or a Mastersons stay wet palette box
To keep paints/palette in
Clove oil (food grade)
A few drops of this onto a paper towel that has been taped to the top of the Tupperware will help the paint last longer.
M. Tobias Hall (b. 1981) lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tobias has an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art (Class of 2017), and received his BA magna cum laude in Fine Arts (with a focus on Animation) from Arizona State University.
He has taught drawing and painting as a visiting instructor and assistant instructor at Studio Escalier (Paris & Argenton Chateau, France), at the Ryder Studio School (Santa Fe, NM), online with Studio Incamminati.
I’m absolutely loving this class, I’m learning so, so much!
I find the online class setting so much more motivating and rewarding than just watching an artist demo with no human interactions! I still can’t believe I can be painting in Australia in a class in America! So cool! Thank you so much for this opportunity! :)
Kalinda W
I am enjoying the class so far and like having Toby Hall as the instructor. He breaks topics down easily for each class and is very organized.
Kaitlyn H
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