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Home » Workshops & Classes » Drawing + Painting » Gesture and Personality in a Portrait
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Gesture and Personality in a Portrait

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Heidi Harrington

Drawing + Painting Workshop: All Levels

This one day workshop will explore various ways of finding personality and likeness in a portrait in oils or acrylics, while working from a live model. There will be exercises in finding the gesture of a pose as well as the gesture of facial features, notably the eyes and mouth.

Artists of all levels are encouraged to join!

Tuition for this class includes a fee of $10 for basic supplies provided by CAW.

School Policies

Students who withdraw 48 hours prior to the first class are eligible for a refund or credit toward another class, less a $25 registration fee.

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Term: Spring 2025

Suggested Ages: 18+

Workshop: Sunday, 10 am–1 pm, 5/4
1 session: $95.50; Capacity: 12

Registration closed
Supplies:
Oil paints or optional acrylics:
Needed:
Flake White Hue, Winsor and Newton recommended, or other white
Burnt Sienna
Ultramarine Blue

Optional paints:
Yellow Ochre
Alizarin Crimson
Raw Umber
Lemon Yellow, (651) Daler Rowney Georgian or similar light yellow
Manganese Violet

Helpful but not necessary paints:
Viridian (Green)
Cadmium Red
Chromium Oxide Green.
Cobalt Blue (pure, not hue), Utrecht or Windsor and Newton artist's quality recommended
Indian (Persian) Red, Old Holland or other
Burnt Umber
Paynes Grey

A canvas or board, approx 16" x 20" or 18" x 14" Two preferably filbert brushes, No. 4 and 6
A palette made of glass or plexi glass with grey or midtone paper to underneath or grey palette paper
Odorless thinner
Linseed oil 
(Small cups or jam jar lid, to dip into for the above)
Paper towels
A t-shirt rag

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