April 11-13, 2011

Location: Studio Armusik, Hamburg, PA

$650 USD

During three intensive eight-hour days you will learn the principles essential in transform flat shapes into fully dimensional forms, understanding the importance of angularity and creating a strong sense of light essential to a dramatic portrait in this class. Students concentrate in this lesson on creating the portrait using a moderately limited palette of traditional colors to create accurate value calibrations. Eric will instruct each student to focus with confidence on structure, anatomy, proportion, light direction, edge conditions, contrast and overall subtle qualities necessary to make a good portrait an extraordinary one. This portrait painting workshop you will learn to achieve these subtleties using opaque and semi-opaque paint in the light and shadow areas. Students will develop painting skills such as scumbling, feathering, and transparent glazing to create finished work quickly. Overall, the course will prepare students to create beautiful work in a compressed schedule (a quality many in-demand portrait artists must adapt to at a moment's notice.) A great course for artists of all levels. Questions? Send an Email

Accomodations:

Eric suggests staying at the beautiful American House Hotel which is located one block away from the workshop and is a great place to stay, eat dinner or walk the town. It is conveniently located in the center of town.

To register for the portrait painting workshop:

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Pay by Check or Money Order: Eric Armusik PO Box 451 Hamburg, PA 19526

Limited to 10 students so act now before the class fills up!

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* I expect all artists planning to study with me to provide me with examples of their artwork via email or website link and a list of goals at least one week prior to studying with me. Unlike many workshops, I like to handle the theme of the workshop in tandum with achieving your personal goals to make your experience the most rewarding.

Eric