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Portrait Painting All Levels (Second half of Term)
Allan Ramsay

Portrait Painting All Levels (Second half of Term)

£395.00

Saturdays
7 June – 12 July / 10.00am – 4.00pm
6 weeks / No half term break

Tutor: Allan Ramsay

Course #: SA47

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Portrait Painting All Levels

This six week course is suitable for both beginners as well as experienced students.

The course will provide you with an understanding of the methods, materials and concepts required to create a portrait in oils.

Basic anatomy, colour mixing, paint application and ways of looking will all be discussed.

The long poses will allow you to develop a sustained engagement with your work and will give you the opportunity to complete 2 painted portraits during the term.

About Allan

Allan Ramsay is a 1st Prize Winner of the Portrait Awards at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He’s also a recipient of The Elizabeth Geenshields Foundation Award, Canada, a prestigious international Award for figurative painting. He is the recipient of The China/UK Art Prize at Art Suzhou, China.

Allan has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London.
His portraits are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh City Council, Wolfson College (Oxford), St Johns College (Cambridge), University of Cardiff and Exeter University.

Saturdays

7 June – 12 July / 10.00am – 4.00pm
6 weeks / No half term break

Tutor: Allan Ramsay

Course #: SA30

Materials List

Please bring these materials with you when you start the course:

Oil Paints

Heatherleys sells an excellent range of mid-priced good quality oil paint suitable for beginners. Those more experienced are recommended to bring “artists quality” oils.

Colours

  • Titanium white
  • Yellow ochre
  • Lemon yellow
  • Cadmium yellow pale
  • Light red or venetian red
  • Cadmium red
  • Alizarin crimson
  • Ultramarine blue
  • Raw umber
  • Ivory black

Brushes
We recommend two kinds of brushes for oil painting: nylon /synthetic and hog bristle in sizes 2, 5, 7.

  • Long flats or long filberts are recommended.
  • A pointed brush for detail
  • Long handles are preferable

Palette
Wooden or “tear off” paper palette.

Thinners
Low odour thinners.
Please do NOT use turpentine or white spirits in the school as some people can be made very unwell by the fumes.

Also required:

  • Double Dippers – used to hold thinners.
  • Palette knife, trowel shape is best (Winsor & Newton No 22)
  • Canvas or canvas board (can be bought at Heatherleys)

Optional
An apron or old shirt

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