One-Day Fugure/Portrait
Workshop
Instructor: Ying Liu
June 29,
2008
10 am – 5 pm (1 Hour or 40 Min. Lunch at 1 pm)
Fee: $75
(including model fee)
Max. in Class: 10 (Full)
Location: 1332 Gladys Ave. Long Beach, CA 90804
General Outline (updated 6/27)
10 -1 am – Value Study (figure)
10 – 11am:
Ying will do a black and white demo
with her focus on the abstract shapes, relationship between values,
as well as how to “see” them, composition, block in, techniques of value comparison in terms of
volume and form.
11 – 1pm:
Students paint using black and
white with a focus on: identifying simple shapes, "seeing" 3-4 scale of values and painting the figure using relative values. Ying will go around and will be instructing on individual basis.
1 -2 pm – Lunch
2 - 5 pm
– Color Study (Portrait)
2 - 3pm:
Ying will do a quick color study
demo with her focus on the relationships between forms and structure rather than the representation of literal facial features and how the good handling of color temperature and color relationships can better reveal the human form.
3 – 5pm:
Students paint with full palette with a focus on color temperature in regards to the environment.
Ying will go around and will be instructing on individual basis.