The Strategy of Painting People

Ricky Mujica

Ricky Mujica

Workshop Description

October 9–13
Monday–Friday
6:00–9:30pm
Fee: $450
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list

This class will focus on painting people from life and we will talk about how this work from life can inform the work we do from photos if we choose to work from photos. We will be talking about getting a likeness and we will be discussing color, and how it relates to reality and how it relates to your painting. We will work on strategies for making global and local measurements. We will learn squinting techniques for seeing and capturing values and form. We will discuss and learn the difference between a retinal painting approach where we paint what is in front of us irrespective of what it is, and we will also learn about a more construction boolean approach where we will analyze the 3D shapes in front of us. We will work from the general to the specific and talk about the whole instead of making a collection of details. Let’s have fun!

About the Instructor

Born and raised in New York City and currently living and working in Montclair, New Jersey, Ricky Mujica (aka Ricardo José Mujica) studied art at the High School of Art and Design, Parsons in Paris, and at Parsons School of Design/New School for Social Research, where he received a full Presidential Scholarship.

Mujica is an acclaimed, multidimensional painter with many awards to his credit. As a fine artist he has won many awards from acclaimed organizations such as the Portrait Society of America, the Oil Painters of America, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Lore Degenstein, the Wausau Museum, and the Museum of American Illustration. He worked for many years as a professional illustrator with such clients as Harper Collins, Harlequin Books, and Cherry 7-Up, and has painted murals for Sony and Loews Theaters.

He is a Signature Status Member of the Portrait Society of America.

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