Description

The Nude Portraitw/Scott NoelOctober 3 & 410:00 am - 4:00 pm


The workshop will run for two full days. Our interest is whether two distinct pictorial genres, the portrait and the nude figure, can challenge each other and make each more interesting. The expressive overlap in portraiture and figure painting has been a central concern in my work for over forty years.
To explore this experience the workshop will consist of two all day poses. The class will be open to any painting medium, oil, acrylic, pastel, opaque watercolor, but the emphasis of each experience will be in pushing the participants’ efforts through changes and revision which may include the model’s change of state from nude to clothed or vice versa.
My interest is in “likeness” which is as much involved with gesture, proportion, and spatial context as the disposition of features, complexion, and light.

Materials List:
18 x 24” sketchbook1 sheet of Rives 22 x 30” Rives BFK paper (buff, gray, or tan)1 stick of Rembrandt white pastel1 2B black conte crayonvine charcoaldrawing board (foam core) for the large paperSecond Day:2: 16x20” to 18x24” painting supports: canvas, panel, or prepared papertrowel-type palette knife2 or 3 brushes of differing sizesmixing surface: glass is preferred, but wood or paper palette is okaypalette cup and a coffee can for brush cleaningpigments: oil or acrylic:titanium or flake whiteyellow ochrejaune brilliant of naples yellowindian or venetian redalizarin crimsoncadmium yellow lemoncadmium red lightviridiancobalt bluedioxazine purpleivory black

Instructor

Scott Noel