Description: Participants will explore portrait painting and learn to capture the form and emotion of a portrait or figure with oil. Participants will learn the oil painting process, starting with a monochromatic sketch and overlaying a limited palette of mixed chromatic colors to achieve a rich, harmonious portrait that is full of life and captures a strong likeness to your subject. What You'll Learn: This class focuses on developing participants' skills in relation to anatomy, colour, tone, constructing a palette, mark making, and developing emotion and expression in oil painting. The instructor will share and discuss core artistic principles – both theoretical and practical, as tools to gain a greater understanding of portrait and figure painting, helping you develop your own practice and artistic style in a way that is true to you. Instruction includes: Helpful tips and advice about portrait painting with oil Proportion Capturing movement and emotion Form and color Tonal value range Composition Mark Making Constructing a palette Media: Oil Paint, Canvas, Paper Please bring your regular oil painting supplies and a few choices of canvas formats and sizes to your first class.