Portrait Painting Techniques - Self Portrait Painting / 10 Feb

Portrait Painting Techniques - Self  Portrait Painting / 10 Feb

If you would like to create realistic portraits, and develop and showcase your own personal style why not join Jack Ford’s paint-along class for 3hours of fun, live on Zoom? Jack’s teaching style is casual, very informative, and easy to follow as he instructs and demonstrates his painting process, breaking it all down into logical steps.

This week, Jack demonstrates the self portrait painting. Over the 3 hour live session, you will work alongside Jack and you’ll learn that consistent progress is not about how much time you paint, it’s about defining reasonable goals, laying out the plan, and sticking with it!

A 3 hour virtual session delivered via Zoom with commentary throughout and Q&As. There are 6 weekly classes in total, and no matter your skill level or your time commitment you can book as many or as few classes as you wish.

Week 1: Drawing the Clothed Figure

Week 2: Alla Prima Figure

Week 3:
Portrait Drawing Basics

Week 4: Self Portrait Drawing

Week 5:
Self Portrait Painting

Week 6: The Alla Prima Portrait


All of these techniques will help improve your portrait work, and everything else you love to paint. Best of all, you’ll have more fun and find deeper satisfaction in your own portraits because your personal voice and style will begin to emerge with each new painting — what every artist is looking for!

Click here to download the materials list for this class.

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