Description: This workshop focuses on the challenges of becoming a successful commission portrait artist, which involves much more than just painting well! The commission portrait painter must understand client relationships, business practices, marketing and promotional activities, in addition to the complexities of delivering consistently high-quality paintings. This workshop includes both studio painting and lecture sessions. Saper will address the following areas of study: getting a likeness, understanding the colors of light and shadow, using photographic resources successfully, presenting yourself and your work effectively, client relations, understanding your market, and developing your own business plan. The handbook For Love or Money will be used in the class. www.chrissaper.com

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Description: This workshop focuses on the challenges of becoming a successful commission portrait artist, which involves much more than just painting well! The commission portrait painter must understand client relationships, business practices, marketing and promotional activities, in addition to the complexities of delivering consistently high-quality paintings. This workshop includes both studio painting and lecture sessions. Saper will address the following areas of study: getting a likeness, understanding the colors of light and shadow, using photographic resources successfully, presenting yourself and your work effectively, client relations, understanding your market, and developing your own business plan. The handbook For Love or Money will be used in the class. www.chrissaper.com

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Description: A good painting tells as much about the artist as the painting itself. Mueller will talk about the whole process of putting a painting together; from the first concept, to small idea and value composition studies, the use of a color study and on to the finished painting. Students will also do direct painting, without preliminary studies. The emphasis will not be on the finished piece but on the process of making a more successful painting. Remember, most paintings are ruined at the start, not at the end, as not enough preliminary thought is given to them. Students will work on counter-change, color harmony, and the balance of masses and shapes in size, value and color. Students should be prepared to work from their own photos and/or field studies. Starts, mistakes and failures could be the order of the day, but Mueller says, We will make mistakes, work hard, and have a good time doing it! www.nedmueller.com

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Description: This workshop is designed to create a relaxed, informative, yet intense working environment. Romel will demonstrate daily on his approach to painting portrait & the figure from life, using his direct fluid painting style with heavy emphasis on the use of improving color, drawing skills, value relationships, understanding edges and capturing the "feeling" of light. Learn to use the elements that make a painting/drawing work and exciting: creative use of color & edges, visual movement, paint or charcoal application, distribution of abstract shapes and strong design. Students will also learn how to combine working from life and photographs to a finish piece. Romel provides easy-going individual instruction as well as critique and group discussion. Techniques of past great artists like Sargent, Zorn, Sorolla, etc. will also be discussed. Be prepared to work hard, make new friends and best of all - have fun. All levels are welcome. www.romeldelatorre.com

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Description: The emphasis of this class will be creating effective compositional design, and facilitating a dynamic and sensitive approach to color. Students will explore under-painting techniques, value and color studies, surface applications, and developing sensitive compositions from photo references. Instructor demonstrations daily. Individual instruction and critiques.

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