About the Course
- Goal & Approach: learn to use oil painting for portraits, from old-master methods to modern expressiveness, with warm and cool tones to bring portraits to life.
- Mix traditional glazing with contemporary brushwork.
- Mediums- Techniques: layering, glazing, and alla prima.- Beginners Welcome:** Learn the techniques, then practice repeatedly. - Observational studies, value and colour-mixing, progressive portrait studies.
- Materials & Access: Bring your own paints or pay $10 extra per class to use the tutor’s materials. (Paid in cash to the tutor at each lesson) Transparent acrylic paints, either Atelier, Matisse or similar professional brand. If you’re not sure what transparents and opaques are, ask for help in store. [You can make your transparents into opaques by adding white.]
Oils- Windsor and Newton (The same colours as above in transparent oil) is the more budget friendly professional oil paint.
Colours: (in both Acrylic and OilPaint.
Cool red - quinacridone magenta Warm red - cadmium red or equivalent.
Warm blue -ultramarine blue Cool blue - Prussian or cerulean
Warm yellow - Indian yellow Cool yellow- lemon yellow
Neutrals - black, burnt umber, burnt sienna and white.
Acrylic gloss medium (optional) – to increase transparency, sheen andflow, ideal for glazes.Canvas or canvas paper, palette, and apronVariety of brushes, small to large (filberts are best for portrait painting).Oil mediums, linseed oil or Galkyd. Odourless turps (for eg, Gamsol)
Your Instructor
Cheryl Simpson
Cheryl is a self-taught artist born in Leeds, England. After spending 21 years in New Zealand, she now resides in Penrith, NSW. For the past five years, she has been teaching at paint-and-sip events in her NZ studio, and later expanding to workshops and classes in NZ and more recently in New South Wales. Cheryl is an active practicing artist and serves as the in-house resident artist at Stella’s Gallery on High Street, Penrith, every Monday. Art is a central part of her life—something she thrives on and loves to share with others by passing on her knowledge and techniques. Over the past eight years, she has attended numerous extensive courses to continually develop her skills and expand her teaching repertoire. Her specialty is portraits, and she is an expressive artist who brings emotion and depth to her work.