Course Description: Learn to paint portraits using contemporary methods including painting form, value, color zones, and contrast with different modern color palettes. This class begins with easy-to-follow, fun ways to sketch with paint before going in for modeled detail. We will be looking at famous Artists’ work who took portrait painting to new levels including Egon Schiele, Alice Neel, Kehinde Wiley, B. Shawn Cox, Mark Tennant, Mark Ryden (Godfather of Pop Surrealism), Sandra Chevrier, and more!

Sign up for two during checkout and receive a 10% discount. (Class Size Limit is 6).

Some of the many benefits you will get out of this class:

•Learn how to paint with both the traditional Zorn Limited Color Palette and with Modern Color Palettes.
•Learn to mix a diverse variety of skin tones.
•Brush techniques and best practices for choosing which brush for the job.
•How to paint smooth and textured areas.
•How to paint dynamic modeled and flat areas
•Edge Control- what is it and why it is so important.
•Learn Color Mixing and Color Theory through exercises and projects.

Sponsored by Ampersand Art Supply.
Free and easy Parking.
Supply List Emailed upon registration. 18 years old & up.

Sign up for two and receive a 10% discount. Enter 2FOR10%OFF at checkout.

Thursdays: April 10, 17, 24, and May 1, 8, and 15.

Evening Class: 6-8:30 PM/Six Evening sessions.

Leslie’s Teaching Credentials include teaching Painting: Oil, Acrylic, and Encaustic Classes at U.T. Austin, and for The Austin Museum of Art’s Art School at Laguna Gloria. She founded and hosted Austin Full MontyPainting and Drawing Sessions for the Austin Visual Arts Association for 4 years prior to moving to San Diego..
Leslie has been teaching Adult Painting and Encaustic Art Workshops in her studio gallery located in Liberty Station since 2020.