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Academic Portrait Painting in Oils

Name: Academic Portrait Painting in Oils
Price: 350.00 EUR

A living presence translated into color and light: academic portrait painting from a live model, using the historic Zorn Palette.

Sofia Zuluaga · Rony Portrait

Worum es geht

To paint a portrait is to translate a living presence into planes of color and light. With Sofia Zuluaga you learn the academic approach to capturing a likeness, working directly from a live model and exclusively with the Zorn Palette – a historically restricted set of oil colors that trains the eye for value and temperature instead of reaching for an endless array of tubes. Far from a limitation, it is the condition under which a real understanding of color becomes possible.

Theory and historical examples ground each step of a clear, cumulative method, and you leave with a portrait painted from life. The workshop is taught in English, with German support on request.

Das lernst du

Understand the logic of the Zorn Palette and mix color and value from just a few pigments
Start with an imprimatura and a structured block-in of the head
Build a value scale and use it as the tonal foundation of the portrait
Read and render the smaller planes and forms of the face
Adjust color and value relationships and set a deliberate focal point
Apply the academic method independently to future portraits

Wer dich anleitet

Sofia Zuluaga

Im Team seit 2026

Malerin mit klassischer Ausbildung an der Florence Academy of Art.

Sofia Zuluaga studied classical painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Following her completion of the program in 2015, she moved to Barcelona, Spain, where she was a principal instructor at the Barcelona Academy of Art for five years. […]

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