Description:

with Ian Torney

In this weekend workshop, students will learn traditional portrait painting techniques in oils utilizing a classicist palette.  Without modernist colors the classicist painters of the Renaissance relied on tone over hue and chiaroscuro technique to create the illusion of three-dimensional form.  We will work initially in value to create a grisaille composition of a traditional three-quarter self-portrait view, and then expand our limited palette utilizing traditional hues to create a finished self-portrait painting.  Classicist portrait examples such as Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Vermeer’s “Girl With A Pearl Earring” or Rembrandt’s self-portraits will be discussed.  Participants will complete a self-portrait painting in this workshop.  Not recommended for beginners – participants should possess at least modest drawing abilities and some experience with painting. Friday night will be a painting demo and class will continue all day Saturday and Sunday. Students can pack lunch or can pick one up on the lunch break.
Fri., July 28, 6-8pm, Sat & Sun, July 29 & 30, 9am-4pm (one hr lunch break)

SUPPLIES:

Oil paints: Olive Green or Terra Verte; Naples Yellow; Yellow Ochre; Burnt Sienna; Alizarin Crimson; Ultramarine Blue or Prussian Blue; Raw Umber; Titanium White (small 1.25 oz/37 ml size tubes - either traditional oils, or water-soluble oils recommended).

Oil painting medium: linseed oil or stand oil, and odorless mineral spirits for traditional oil paints; or water soluble oil painting medium.

Metal palette cups (small - to hold painting medium)

22-by-30-inch gallery-stretched canvas or cradled Masonite board prepared with a white gesso ground.

Assorted brushes – rounds and flats sizes 2, 4 and 6.

Metal palette knife – medium size, with a step recommended.

Disposable wax palette pad, or an oiled wooden palette or a glass palette - approximately 9-by-12-inches or larger.

Paper towel or cloth rags.

Vine Charcoal.

Krylon Spray Varnish

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Ian Torney is an artist and art educator with over three decades of teaching and painting experience.  Mr. Torney holds a B.A from Bowdoin College where he majored in both Visual Art and English Literature, and he holds an M.A.Ed. from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from the Art Institute of Boston.  He has traveled extensively to both study and paint in Europe and across the United States, most notably including residencies at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy, at the Humberside School of Art and Design in Hull, U.K., the New York Studio School, and The Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO.  Mr. Torney taught for over two decades at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH where he served as both the Director of the Fine Arts Program and the Head of the Arts Division – during that time he maintained his studio at the Kimball Jenkins Estate and School of Art in Concord, where he also taught as an Artist-In-Residence.  Since 2012 Mr. Torney has served as the Chair of the Visual Arts Program at Milton Academy just outside of Boston, where he maintains his school year studio in the Art & Media Center.  Mr. Torney now also maintains a summer studio in his new home in Jackson, NH overlooking Mt. Washington.  Mr. Torney’s artwork is featured in various corporate and private collections, notably including: D-Magazine of Dallas, TX; Paraxel Corporation of Wellesly, MA; Boston Private Bank of Boston, MA; Ameriprise Financial of Concord, NH; The Black Creek Group of Denver, CO; and Solomon ETC Architecture of San Francisco, CA.  He is represented by: the Millbrook Gallery and Sculpture Garden of Concord, NH; Gallery 334 of the Milton Art Center in Milton, MA; and now the Jackson Art Studios of Jackson, NH.  To learn more, to arrange a commission or purchase work, see www.iantorneyart.com.

Cancellation Policy. We ask that you to give us one week notice if you need to cancel and we will refund you minus a $25 cancellation. Cancellations should be made by phone by calling (603) 387-3463. This provides us the opportunity to fill the space. We are sorry, but we cannot give refunds or issue credits for ‘no shows’.