WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

[Alla-Prima Portrait Painting]

For All Skill Levels:

• Designed for artists or students with any level of experience in portrait drawing or painting.
• Conducted in English.
• Led by instructor Zin Lim, the workshop includes lectures, presentations, demonstrations, and critiques.

Key Workshop Elements:

• Participants can ask questions and gain insights into materials, techniques, composition, and aesthetics during Zin's demonstrations.
• Covers essential themes and techniques, such as materials, composition, visual elements, expressionist mindset, creating strokes and textures, designing portrait art, basic composition principles, and color schemes.

Hands-On Experience:

• Engage in hands-on exercises, creating multiple portraits from live models or providing reference photos.
• Participants may bring their own reference photos.

Individual Guidance:

• Zin provides timely feedback, and individual demonstrations, and addresses questions while participants work on individual projects.

For Beginners:

• Gain insights into expressionist techniques in oil painting.
• Learn basic proportions for painting the human head.
• Receive step-by-step guidance for efficient portrait construction.
• Get advice on ongoing skill improvement after the workshop.

For Advanced/Intermediate Artists:

• Broaden perspective in portrait art.
• Explore a stylistic shift from realism to expressionism or impressionism.
• Understand the keys to unique artwork stylization.
• Learn effective initiation and conclusion of artworks.

Additional Information:

• Email inquiries to info@zinlim.com.

[MATERIALS]

• Oil Paint: Titanium white, Cad. yellow, Cad. red, Alizarin crimson, Ultramarine blue. (Optional: Burnt/law umber, Ivory black, Pthalo green, or any color you like to include)
• Medium: Odorless mineral spirit + Oil (Pure/waterly textured linseed, sunflower)
• Brush: Various sizes of long hair flat. (Zin will use low-price/synthetic flat brushes.)
• Canvas: Boards, Paper pad, or Stretched canvas (for portrait, 12"x16"-16"x20", white gessoed, smooth surface)
• Palette: Palette Pad or any wooden/plastic/glass palette
• Palette knife (Sharp)
• Paper towel or rag: To wipe out the oil from the brush and palette knife. (Zin use cut drop cloth)

This workshop will be hosted by Art Corner Dubai

+971 50646393

https://www.instagram.com/artcorner.83/