Bold Strokes: Another Portrait Workshop in the Books

The color course in our Portrait Workshop was a huge success. It was a joy to walk students through the challenge of mixing and applying color. This was a group that took some real initiative too!

A few students came about an hour early to start to mix colors and organize their palette. I think this was a huge help. I would recommend this to any new students. I always mix my own palette before any model arrives.

I think it is so important that students mix their own colors because the act of mixing the colors is so important. It is almost meditative. We start to psyche ourselves up for a productive portrait session.

I will be suggesting this to any students in next week’s alla prima workshop.

I am so grateful for my students because they not only open my eyes to opportunities in my teaching, but also in my own work.

Multitasking to help these students with their work actually pushed me to simply my own work. I learned that to get my own work done in this class, that I had to do a lot with only a few marks. It reminds me not to overwork my painting. One big, confident brush stroke is better because our eyes fill in the rest!

This session got me so excited for the alla prima class next week. I hope to see you all there!

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