How to breathe personality and life into your portraits
Instructor: Jacky Pearson
Audience: Fine Art Painters
Medium: Watercolor
Stage: Aspiring, Emerging
Starts Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Daily for 4 Days
4pm – 8pm MT
$139.00
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Course Description
Join Master Artist Jacky Pearson for a 4-day course, and learn her unique watercolor technique. Over the four days, you will receive step by step demonstrations in a friendly atmosphere, with critiques, and comprehensive explanations of color mixing, shadow types, skin color, brush strokes and edges.
Aspiring and Emerging artists come to learn a different approach to creating juicy creative shadows! A high resolution reference photo will be provided.
- session 1: Exercises of features and explanation of the form of the head, draw up head and hands.
- session 2: Underpainting and creating unity.
- session 3: washes and establish the features and shadows.
- session 4: the dark background as a way of making the portrait pop out.
YOU WILL LEARN:
- How to make juicy darks creating rich transparent shadows and dramatic light.
- A drawing system which achieves a quick, accurate likeness.
- How to bring your portraits to life with washes and edges.
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Instructor Bio
“I try to paint a feeling.
I love the natural landscape and used to work as a soil scientist.
Painting is my way of studying nature. Of particular interest are shadows with their range of tones, colours, reflected light and edges. This has led me into painting portraits as I can use the way watercolours are so alive when they flow and mingle giving beautiful transparent effects in shadows. Although I paint in other mediums; oils, and charcoal, it is watercolour that particularly gives me the freedom to get those wonderful subtle and seemingly out of control moments.”
Awards and publications:
Jacky has won numerous awards, nationally and internationally.
Jacky has represented New Zealand in international competitions including the International Watercolour Exhibition in Moscow in 2021; her work is in the permanent collection of the International Museum of Watercolours in Mexico; a finalist for the International Watercolor Masters in 2021 and 2023.
She has had a successful worldwide calendar series, “Lighthouses of New Zealand”.
Jacky has been published in international art books; magazine covers and numerous art articles.
Her painting demonstrations can be viewed on YouTube including Australian TV series “Colour in your Life”. In New Zealand Jacky is represented by galleries and is currently working on a series of watercolour tuition books, teaching videos and painting aids.
