Create Thick Impasto Color Portraits
Learn how to apply thick, buttery paint to create incredible texture and dynamic color
Instructor: Victor Wang
Audience: Fine Art Painters
Medium: Oil
Stage: Aspiring, Emerging
Thursday & Friday, June 6 & 7, 2024
Two Day Course
8am – 2pm MT
$450.00
Note: Price in $USD
Out of stock
All recordings are available for 1-month after the course finishes.
High School, University, and College students get 20% off!
See FAQs at the bottom of this page for details.
Course Description
Join Victor Wang in this 2-day workshop and learn how to paint a dynamic contemporary portrait with Wang’s mastery technique, which is heavy impasto color application and transparent glazing combination.
This unique style will help you become a painterly portrait artist. Victor will show you how to use buttery paints to build up texture surface and dynamic color relationship, through general to specific.
The simplification process will help you to discover the exciting effects which leads you to the final stage of a powerful portrait with sculptural quality.
The introduction focuses on the fundamentals including getting to know our materials and observation and application skill as a realistic painter.
Victor will do a couple demonstrations with helpful tips and insights of his skill to navigate students to the process.
You Will Learn:
- Learn the keys of oil painting techniques.
- Learn how to create sophisticated and rich texture and through mark making
- Understand the relationship between opaque and transparent color.
- Learn how to mix color spontaneously directly on your canvas or other substrate
- Develop your skills of design composition.
Supply List
Paints:
- Flake White or Flake White hue
- Cadmium Yellow Light, Yellow Ochre
- Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarin Crimson
- Burn Sienna, Burn Umber
- Viridian/Thalo Green
- Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue
- Ivory Black
Brushes:
- (You should have 5 or more brushes)
- 2 Hog Brushes; #3, #6 and #10 (flat or filbert)
- 2 Sable Brushes/Synthetic; #4, #10(flat or filbert)
- 1 fan brush 1 1⁄2” or flat wash brush
Others:
- Turpenoid or Gamsol
- Neo-Megilp or Liquin
- Palette Knife
- Glass Palette 12″ -16″
- 1 Shallow Tin (for solvent)
- 1 Stretched canvas 18” x 22”
- Paper Towel and Rag
Instructor Bio
I am influenced recently by the way Auguste Rodin used clay to model figures, In his Sculpture contains expression and dramatic body language and through his marvelous clay marks making we could sense of inner emotions and feelings. So I have tried to treat my color paints as clay to build up the form on canvas. The thickness of the paint evokes a sculptural physicality and multi-level quality.
