COLORFUL PORTRAIT TECHNIQUES
$69.00
- Instructor – Flo Lee
- 2+ Hours of Instruction
- Lifetime Access/Downloadable Content
- No Private Group for this class
- Course Price – $69
- Early Bird ends 9/4 – $49
- This class was in Let’s Face It 2022. If you own that course, do not buy this course.
Description
Are you ready to bring your portraits to life with vibrant colors and expressive techniques?
In Flo Lee's engaging course, you'll learn to paint an expressive ¾ pose portrait on a colored ground. The course offers step-by-step guidance to help you create a stunning portrait using acrylic paints on a durable surface. Flo shares her personal techniques and tips, making the process accessible and enjoyable for artists of all levels. You'll start by preparing your surface and selecting a ground color to set the mood of your painting. The course covers drawing the portrait accurately, sealing the drawing, and applying layers of paint with decisive brushstrokes. Flo emphasizes the importance of focusing on values and creating cohesion within the painting. By the end of the course, you'll have a beautiful, expressive portrait and a deeper understanding of the painting process, enriched by the creative journey and techniques shared by Flo Lee.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course students will have an understanding of the following concepts:
- Mastering the use of a colored ground to set the mood and impact of your portrait.
- Developing confident brushstroke techniques for expressive and dynamic painting.
- Understanding value relationships to create depth and balance in your portraits.
- Applying layers strategically to enhance the cohesiveness and flow of the artwork.
- Cultivating a personalized approach to portrait painting, allowing your unique artistic voice to shine through.
COURSE OPENS SEPTEMBER 18TH
Lifetime Access - Download All Content
Cost - $69
EARLY BIRD - $49
DESCRIPTION OF LESSONS
Join Flo Lee in this engaging and detailed course, where you'll learn to paint an expressive ¾ pose portrait on a colored ground. This course offers step-by-step guidance to help you achieve a stunning portrait using acrylic paints on a durable surface like a plywood panel. Flo shares her personal techniques, insights, and tips throughout the process, making it accessible and enjoyable for artists of all levels.
Important Takeaways from This Course:
- Surface Preparation: Learn how to prime your surface using transparent gesso to ensure durability and prevent warping.
- Colored Ground Application: Discover the importance of choosing and applying a mid-tone ground color to influence the overall mood and impact of your painting.
- Drawing the Portrait: Use grids or freehand techniques to draw the portrait accurately on the prepared surface, ensuring a balanced and cohesive composition.
- Sealing the Drawing: Use hairspray or acrylic sealant to fix the drawing, followed by a thin layer of gesso and the ground color for a refined base.
- Painting Techniques: Flo emphasizes decisive brushstrokes and working with visible brushstrokes, focusing on values rather than exact color matching. She provides tips for balancing dark and light tones, merging features, and creating cohesion within the painting.
By the end of this course, you'll have a beautiful, expressive portrait and a deeper understanding of painting with a colored ground. Enjoy the creative journey and the valuable techniques shared by Flo Lee in this inspiring course.
COURSE OPENS SEPTEMBER 18TH!
Lifetime Access - Download All Content
Cost - $69
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION - $49
MEET FLO LEE - ARTIST/INSTRUCTOR
Flo is a Bristol, UK based figurative/portrait Artist. Flo is influenced by modern day expressionist figurative artists who focus on the visibility of brushstrokes within a painting. Flo’s fascination of the visible inner engineering & process of a painting came from seeing more traditional artwork at a young age. The pursuance of making every mark count, some paintings with more details than others, is what Flo is aiming for.
Flo is also interested in the ability our minds have to finish unfinished lines or areas of paintings, often intentionally leaving areas raw or underdeveloped. She mainly works in acrylic and more recently has started to explore with Oil paint. She is a prolific creator, drawing or painting every day, she feels this is necessary for her to reach her personal skill level goals, but also finds it meditative.
Flo aims to create Art that is interesting, approachable, unpretentious and enjoyable. She herself enjoys art for its aesthetic and technical values. She appreciates art that has a message or statement to convey but this is by no means a compulsory quality in art for her enjoyment.
She studied for her foundation Fine Art Degree in Bristol and finished her studies but completing a Fine Art Diploma. She has held a couple of smaller scale solo exhibitions and has had work featured on online platforms.
Flo’s future practice hope is to become a master of her own craft, to reach people that enjoy art both on face value and to those who choose to seek a deeper meaning. She would love to be able to inspire others to relentlessly pursue their passion as she has hers, after returning to it 15 years post study.
Her original Artworks including commissions and Prints have been collected Internationally. Flo will be looking to exhibit more frequently in the future.
Other Work by Flo
PRIVATE GROUP FOR THIS COURSE
There is a private FB group for this course. Once you are signed up for the course, you can access the FB group where only you and other students signed up for the course will have access. We are looking forward to seeing your artwork!
COURSE SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this course. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
SUBSTRATE
- Surface to paint on- I use 5mm plywood panel, but you can use whatever surface you feel comfortable with. Paper is probably the less favourable option just down to durability and the fact it will buckle if it is not stretched.
PAINT
- Acrylic paints
- Ideally Black (I use ivory black)
- Raw umber
- Titanium white
- Cadmium red
- Cadmium yellow
- Ultramarine blue
- (Additional colours burnt umber green, orange, alizarin crimson, yellow ochre)
PAINTBRUSHES
- Brushes varying in size- I use angled brushes but use what you are comfortable with
- Brush for gesso- just means you don’t ruin your other brushes
OTHER
- Clean empty resealable pot for the ground colour
- Water
- Cloth/cleaning rag
- Palette
- Transparent Gesso – I’ll be using the Liquitex brand
- Hairspray or acrylic sealant- must be a spray version and suitable to paint over- so water based NOT oil based
- Compressed charcoal – I have used 2 different tones, medium and dark, but one tone will work fine. (Willow will work just not as well)
- Print out or photo of the reference
- Ruler
- Eraser
- Pencil (for drawing the grid lines on the reference if you work this way)
- Optional equipment
- App- that allows 2 images to be displayed side by side- I use “layout” Grid app- if working from a digital image (I use grid#)
- Mirror
- Camera (phone camera is perfectly fine)
- Photo editing app so you can convert your picture to monochrome
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON ACCESSING CLASSES AND SELLING WORK CREATED IN THIS COURSE:
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**If your course does not show up, please email us at karabullockart@gmail.com
**Due to the nature of the immediate availability of the course, all purchases are nonrefundable.
**Please talk to the artist of the course about his/her policy on selling artwork created in this course prior to selling any works created during course. Some artists will allow it, while others do not. Thank you for your support.
3 reviews for COLORFUL PORTRAIT TECHNIQUES
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Zoran Jovanovic (verified owner) –
I want to give it ten stars!
Flo is an amazing teacher! Lessons have a lot of information.
Thank you Flo, I learned so much!
I am waiting for your next course!
Delora Lalande (verified owner) –
Such a fabulous course! I loved it and really hope Flo will do more. She’s a great teacher…explains and demos things well. She’s also very humble and sweet. If you love contemporary portraiture, take this class!
Barbara –
I loved this course, thank you Flo. I learned so much and will be trying this style again.