“A portrait is a celebration, of love, of life or of achievement.” This 4-day workshop focuses on head-and-shoulders portrait studies, painted from a live model. Although many of today’s portraits are made from photographs, nothing teaches you more about painting than doing it from life. We will explore various aspects of portraiture including learning to see like an artist, achieving a likeness, various ways to start the portrait (we are all wired differently). We will explore proportion, massing, values, colour temperature (warm/cool), edges (hard/soft), brushwork, using direct painting techniques. To begin, we will first concentrate on drawing, monochrome and simplified colour studies. Over the last two sessions, we will complete a full colour portrait. Our goal is to develop a higher level of skill while having lots of fun translating the reality of another person into paint. Suitable for Oil or Acrylic painters.