FACING GENIUS

•  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, Ingres copied Leonardo, 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 examples are from the Renaissance to the XX 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  you developing 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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Recommended reading: 

"Rembrandt: The Painter at Work" by Ernst Van de Wetering

"The Materials of the Artist" by Max Doerner

"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

Artists recommended:

• Michelangelo
• Raphael
• Leonardo
• Durer
• Holbein
• Bronzino
• Pinturicchio
• Giovanni Battista Moroni 
• Frans Pourbus the Younger
• Anthony Van Dyck
• Alonso Sánchez Coello
• Antonello da Messina
• Rembrandt
• Velazquez
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Carlo Dolci
• Théodore Géricault
• Eugène Delacroix
• Etienne Piot
• Jean Auguste Ingres
• Giuseppe Ribera 
• Bouguereau
• Germain Paget
• Philip de Laszlo
• Gilbert Stuart
• Jules Bastien-Lepage
• Repin
• Antonio Mancini
• John Longstaff

"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