Portrait Painting in Oils with Artist Sage
Tuesday 1 August 2023
Bethlem Gallery
1pm – 4pm
Join experienced portrait artist Sage for a workshop on painting with oils.
Starting from a graphite underdrawing, we will move into water-miscible oil paints to explore the effect of light and how to express this using a limited palette. We will focus on the “values” we see in a face, “temperatures” and “hues”, meaning the full three aspects of colour: value (ie how light or dark it appears), chroma (or saturation), and hue (the red, yellow or blueness).
All welcome and all materials are included. Ideally, please bring along your mobile phone or ipad, or a good-quality reference photo. Alternatively, you may choose to paint directly from life, using a mirror.
About Bethlem Gallery workshops
Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult. Concessions are available for SLaM service users, people over 60, students, people receiving ESA, people registered disabled and their carers.
If you are unable to attend the workshop, please contact us to cancel your place. We often have a waiting list and concessions places are extremely popular.