This course will teach you all you need to know to create fully three-dimensional illuminated paintings of the world around you. It is perfect for beginners and will prove of great value to more advanced painters. It explores how to make an image pop off the canvas or a landscape recede into the blue and hazy distance. It will teach you how to make a head really solid and dimensional, the eyes really liquid and the jewelry sparkle. Students will explore the means by which an image can be made to appear more real than real itself. They will discover how color, tone and paint techniques can be combined to produce an image of dazzling reality. We will examine various options of underpainting, color and tonal systems, as well as some of the more amazing games that can be played with shadows and reflections. Studio work will be from the figure and still life. Assignments include the use of a variety of sources from landscape to photography.
NOTE: A complete supply list will be distributed at the first session.