Painting a Portrait in Acrylics with David Bannister. 13th & 14th July 2024

Two day workshop

^13th and 14^th July 2024

On day one, you will learn about the proportions of the face and how to obtain a likeness by making preliminary sketches and tonal drawings before preparing your canvas and making a tonal under-painting.

Day two will begin with colour preparation/ mixing, then applying paint using brushes and palette knife. You will explore various techniques and approaches to painting in acrylics and in attempting to capture a likeness in your portrait.

Materials required:

A stretched canvas, canvas board or primed wooden board. Minimum size square: 12” x 12”, preferred 16” x 16”. Or portrait format minimum size: 11” x 14”, preferred 12” x 16”. Or larger, if you wish.

A standing easel or desktop easel. There will be a limited number of standing easels available if you need one.

Acrylic paints.

Long-handled bristle or artificial haired brushes. One large flat-ended, one filbert and a finer pointed brush is required. Please bring whatever brushes you have too. The tutor can provide suitable brushes if required.

A flexible palette knife or knives. Metal or plastic is ok.

Mixing palette and two water containers/ cups.

A ruler, 2B pencil and eraser.

Please bring a photograph, printed image or digital image on an Ipad or tablet from which to paint from. Printed images should be printed no smaller than A4 and be a high resolution image.