[INSTRUCTORS]

• Zin Lim & Eunjung Koh

[DATE/TIME]

• Portrait Painting/Drawimng Express: September 28th, 2019. 10am-4pm.

[LOCATION]: The Season of Living, Onnalin studio in Bangko, Thailand.

[MATERIALS]

• Lists of 'charcoal drawing' and 'oil painting' material with store links are at Q&A page.

 

[EXPRESSIVE PORTRAIT WORKSHOP]

*For any experienced-level of artists who have been drawing or painting in any medium.

*Workshop runs in English.

This workshop's consist of instructor's lecture/presentation/demo, student's multiple exercises and group/individual critiques.  Instructor, Zin Lim will introduce 'expressionism' approach in portrait with main demo and quick individual demos. 

During instructor's demo and lecture, you can ask any questions you had or will have about material, technique, composition and aesthetics to understand everything about the unique direction and art creation general. Zin will answer for all of student’s questions. 

The lectures and demos will cover the next themes and techniques.

1. Understanding materials and medium.
2. Understanding visual elements.
3. Mindset to be an expressionist.
4. How to avoid just rendering but move onto expressing.
5. How to create interesting strokes, textures and pattern.
6. How to design solid and interesting portrait art.
7. Basic Composition for successful portrait art.
8. Color scheme. (painting workshop only)

You will exercise and experiment on creating multiple portraits form reference photos provided.

You will create portraits from choice of photo references (you will receive an email with link to images before workshop. You can  also bring your own photos you like to work from)

During you are creating your own drawing, Zin will provide timely feedbacks, mini demos and answer for questions.

For last one hour of workshop, Zin critique on students’ works. Mostly group critique. Sometimes 1 on 1 depending on the progress of workshop activity.

Beginning artists will be able to learn-

1. Various application techniques in charcoal drawing and oil painting,
2. Basic proportion for drawing/painting human head,
3. Step by step work order for efficient construction of portrait art,
4. How to continue fun study and improve skills after workshop.

Advanced/Intermediate artists will be able to-

1. Broaden your perspective in portrait art,
2. Style-shift from realism to expressionism or impressionism,
3. Know keys for unique stylization of artwork.
4. Know how to 'good' start and finish an artwork.

If you have further questions about workshop, please don’t hesitate to email us at info@zinlim.com.