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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 — three days of academic portrait painting from a live model, using the historic Zorn Palette.

Dozent*in

Sofia Zuluaga

Umfang

3 Termine · 21 h

Ort

Wien

Sofia Zuluaga · Masculinity

Worum es geht

To paint a portrait is to translate a living presence into planes of color and light. Over three focused days, you'll learn the academravel — sorry, let me restate cleanly: you'll 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 to master value and temperature relationships rather than reaching for an endless array of tubes. The method is clear and cumulative: from the first structural block-in, through the initial layer of paint, to the subtle work of developing a focal point. Far from a limitation, the Zorn Palette is the condition under which a real understanding of color becomes possible.

Das lernst du

Historical grounding in portrait painting, from academic theory to concrete examples
The Zorn Palette in practice: mixing color and value with a deliberately restricted set of pigments
How to build a value scale and use it as the tonal foundation of a portrait
Reading and rendering the smaller planes and forms of the face
Establishing a focal point, where close observation meets deliberate decision
A transferable method you can apply to future portraits independently