- Copying Old Masters is a traditional way of learning to paint.
- Old Masters copying Older Masters: Michelangelo copied Giotto and Masaccio. Rubens copied Titian and Caravaggio, Sargent copied Velazquez.....
- This time we would like to look at the peaks of humanity achievements in portrait painting and try to elevate ourselves closer to their level. The given examples are from Renaissance to the XIX century and of course, you can find more of your own examples.
- One of the requirements in selection is to have the face dominating the composition, to make sure that the rest of the picture is not distractive or overwhelming.
- Some of the portraits amaze by their incredible technique, some by striking humanism. Please select something that will help developing you as an artist.
- Any great copy includes a thorough study of the master's painting techniques, materials, the story behind the portrait.
- We will meet for six hours every Monday in the course of six weeks. You will continue working at home during the week. As usual, all paintings created during the workshop will be exhibited at our gallery in Georgetown.
- We are very exited about this new project and look forward to working with you!
Price: $670
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"Painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can’t go. The more photographs one looks at, it seems to me, the more one feels this."
--Vincent Van Gogh
- "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself."
Oscar Wilde - in The Picture of Dorian Grey
Recommended reading:
Rembrandt: The Painter at Work
ISBN 10: 0520226682 / ISBN 13: 9780520226685Published by University of California Press (edition First Edition), 2000