Following on from Cordell’s popular Introduction to Portrait Painting in Oils workshops, this workshop is designed to help students understand colour mixing and design in portraiture using 2 limited colour palettes.
These palettes are:
Zorn
White, Ivory Black, Yellow Ochre and Cadmium Red
Temperature
White, Ivory Black and Cadmium Orange
Students will be able to achieve realistic flesh tones and form through focusing on the key components of value, hue and chroma. Creating a portrait from a photograph, and following a step-by-step process, including setting out your mixing palette, Cordell’s workshop will provide advice and guidance on painting a portrait from a reference photograph. The process will cover:
Using oil paints
Measuring and mapping out key features from the photograph
The importance of value, hue and chroma in creating portraits
Organisation of a limited colour palette and approach to painting
Cordell will provide painting demonstrations during the day, and supporting handouts as part of the workshop to explain the techniques involved. Suitable for beginners and improvers, you will create a portrait that you will be able to take away with you at the end of the workshop.
“Cordell’s workshop was enjoyable with a methodical explanation of the painting process and with clear steps involved”
What is included
Oil paints
Paper for painting on
Palettes for mixing paints
Low odour solvent
A reference photo will be supplied if the attendee is not supplying their own photo
Tea, coffee and biscuits available in the kitchen
what to bring
Just bring yourself (and maybe some packed lunch!). We will take a short break at about 12pm for lunch/refreshments.
An apron (or old clothes).
You can bring your favourite brushes to use
A reference photo of a portrait can be brought along to use as a subject, but this must be A4 size and the portrait must be well lit with good definition on features.
Cost
£65 per person if bringing own materials
£75 per person with materials supplied
Suitable for adults (16+), beginners and intermediates, limited to 10 places
How to book
Booking is directly through the tutor, click here to book your space.
You can also contact Cordell directly on his mobile: 07944 395792 or email cordellgarfield10@gmail.com.
“I particularly enjoyed Cordell’s tuition and one-to-one help. Great!”
About the tutor
Cordell is primarily an oil painter who uses traditional classical atelier techniques. Portraits and figurative work feature strongly in his art. As a contemporary painter, he uses both the traditional or modern whether it’s technique, subject or even an approach.
Currently, the President of the Northampton Town and County Art Society, Cordell has exhibited extensively within the county and beyond notably at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. Cordell’s work is held in collections outside the UK and he was awarded the Peoples’ Choice Prize at the Alfred East Gallery as part of their Open 13 exhibition in 2013. For more information on Cordell and his art practice, view his website: http://cordellgarfield.com/
Facebook: Cordell Garfield Contemporary Fine Art
Instagram: @cordellgarfieldartist
“Such an enjoyable way to spend a day. I’m never happy with any of the work I produce, but I can genuinely say I’m pleased with how this turned out”