Portrait Painting Fundamentals

Portrait Painting Fundamentals

8 Week Class | This course is completed

Introduction-Intermediate

October 19, 2021-December 7, 2021

6:00 PM-9:00 PM on Tue

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$433.00 CAD

In this 8 week course, students will learn how to paint the portrait accurately, working from the life model. We will look at the basic proportions of the face and head structure and learn how to simplify the model’s head into simple shapes and proportional landmarks. Emphasis will be placed upon making accurate measurement, mapping the features at their proper place and establishing a strong structural construction of the head. 

We will then observe how to create a sense of form by going over the various elements of light & shadow. Through black & white and monochrome tonal studies, we will learn how to render and give the facial features a sense of 3 dimensionality. 

Finally, we will go over colour theory and learn to mix and match colours on the model. To guarantee the outcome of a successful work, the painting will be built in stages, starting with a drawing, followed by monochrome under-painting and then move to a full colour painting. 

This course is taught in Acrylic but Oils are welcome.

Base Tuition: $340 + Model Fee: $93 = $433 Total

  • What You Will Learn:
  • Head proportions
  • Making accurate measurements
  • Head & facial feature structure
  • Rendering facial features
  • Grisaille painting (black & white)
  • Monochromatic underpainting
  • Full colour painting
  • Colour mixing and matching flesh tones
  • Traditional portrait painting process
  • Portrait composition
Jacot, Florian

Florian is a visual artist who has been teaching at the Toronto School of Art since 2009. As well as instructing at TSA, Jacot has been teaching figure sculpture, artistic anatomy, and figurative drawing and painting since 2004 at such schools as Max the Mutt Animation School, Artist 25 Studio, Centennial College and Sheridan College. Jacot works traditionally in fine arts and does freelance work digitally for the film and gaming industries. His work has been exhibited on several occasions in shows and galleries. In 1999, he received an award from The Sculpture Society of Canada for two of his sculptures. 2008 Digital Animation Diploma, Centennial College, Toronto 2001 Classical Animation Diploma , Classical Figurative Drawing and Painting, ARC Accredited Atelier, Max the Mutt Animation Inc, Toronto 1999 Academy of Realist Art (Michael John Angel Studio), Toronto 1999 Art Diploma, Interdisciplinary Art Program, Art Centre of Central Technical School, Toronto 1995 Post-Secondary Diploma, Preparatory Program for Medical Careers, & aux formations, Switzerland.