Mastering Color for Portraiture with a Limited Palette

Dominique Medici

Dominique Medici

Workshop Description

February 11–15
Monday–Friday
1:30–5:00 PM
Fee: $460
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
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Mastering color is key to your development as an artist. We will work from master copies, photographs and models and spend the week investigating color in portraiture. We will look at the relationships between hue, value, chroma and temperature. We will learn a simple process that is designed to help us understand how to consistently mix any color in only a few steps. I will start with a demo and break down the process of painting into clear and consecutive steps. I will critique and instruct each session. We will be using a limited palette — a Chromatic palette of only 7 colors; Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Red Light, Quinacridone Red, Cobalt Teal, Ultramarine Blue and Ivory Black. This palette is very dynamic and will refinee our understanding of color relationships. Practicing this way over the course of the weekend will help to sharpen your observation, and take your skill to a new level.

About the Instructor

Dominique Medici is a Figurative Artist specializing in Oil Painting. She studied in London and has exhibited internationally, including The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Art in Action and Christie’s Young Artist Exhibition. Medici has received awards from The Portrait Society of America, Art Renewal Center, Oil Painters of America, and Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, among others. Medici has undertaken numerous portrait commissions and her work is displayed in many private collections throughout the US and Europe. Dominique has a passion for teaching and has taught extensively, both privately and publicly.

 

 

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