This painting course is for students with some experience of observational drawing who would like to paint portraits. Working from models, both male and female, you will hone your drawing skills and use them to develop your portrait painting techniques.You will learn how to enlarge and transfer your drawings onto canvas; using oil paint, you will learn about colour, what colours to use, and how to arrange them on your palette; you will learn how to intermix colours and how to apply them to the canvas. By the end of term you will have begun to develop sound and practical painting and drawing methods.This course is built around drawing and painting from the model; observational drawing is at its centre. Likeness - essential to portrait painting - comes through observation. Learning to make measured drawings will increase your awareness of proportion. Through linear and tonal drawing you will become more aware of light and shade. Through an understanding of the square and the rectangle you will become more sensitive to composition. You will learn the traditional methods of scaling up and transferring drawings onto larger sheets of paper, board or canvas. Building upon your drawing experience you will start to understand the tonal meaning of primary colours. At the core of your palette will be two sets of primary colours. These will be the warm primaries: Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, French Ultramarine, and the cool primaries: Lemon Yellow, Alizarin Crimson, Prussian Blue. Using this versitile group of colours you will learn, through trial and error and much individual tuition, to mix colour equivalents of your visual sensations. Greyed-out colours made by complementary mixing (yellow/violet, red/green, orange/blue) will play an important part in this process. ("Adjoining complementary colours intensify each other to the greatest brilliance; mixed, they destroy each other." Johannes Itten, Bauhaus Basic Course 1919.) You will be taught individually, as a g
Name: Portraiture - Intermediate Qualification title: Non regulated Community Learning provision, Crafts, Creative Arts and Design Qualification type: Assessment Assessment information not yet available Awarding Generic award - no awarding body Created 20160519 13:59:18 Updated 20160519 13:59:18
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Richmond Adult Community College
Further Education
info@racc.ac.uk
020 8891 5907
http://www.racc.ac.uk
Parkshot Town: Richmond County:Surrey
Title: Non regulated Community Learning provision, Crafts, Creative Arts and Design Qualification: Non regulated Community Learning provision, Crafts, Creative Arts and Design Classification: Arts, Media and Publishing