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Simplified Watercolour Portraits (4wk) with Kelley Aitken
Wednesday February 12 – March 5 2025 2-5pm
Learn how to paint flesh tones, facial planes and features (eyes, nose, mouth, ears), and hair. Painting portraits is challenging. We’ll review the placement of the features and the way to achieve a proportional likeness.
Materials are not included, but ARTiculations student are offered a one time 20% off coupon that can be used towards your materials list! See Materials List Below
MATERIALS LIST
Holbein Artist Quality Watercolour Paints
Tubes of the following colours which you can load the palette with: (it is extremely important to buy ARTISTS QUALITY paint)
- Cobalt Blue
- French Ultramarine
- Prussian Blue
- Aureolin Yellow (or Hansa)
- Quinacridone Gold
- Permanent Rose
- Winsor Red or da Vinci Red (the equivalent of cadmium red med)
- Yellow Ochre
- Burnt Sienna
Brushes
- Round: 4, 8,10,12
- 1” wash brush
Paper
- 1 sheet of 140lb Arches CP (rag paper) 22" X 30” or pad of 100% cotton paper approximately 9" X 12"
Other
- HB and H pencils
- White vinyl eraser
- Folding palette
About Kelley Aitken
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Kelley Aitken is an author and artist. She has exhibited in Canada and Ecuador and has work in many private collections and is represented in the Canada Council Art Bank collection. Her work can be seen at www.kelleyaitken.com Love in a Warm Climate, The Porcupine’s Quill, 1998 was nominated for Best First Book, the Commonwealth Prize. She co-edited First Writes, Banff Press, 2003. Current writing projects include a novel Dreaming of Tom Thomson, and a manuscript of essays, images and poetry about art, Drawing and Love. Kelley has taught art for over 25 years, offering private classes and workshops, and running art programs for community-based agencies serving newcomers to Canada and women experiencing long-term poverty. She has taught surface design at Sheridan College and currently teaches drawing and writing programs in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario. |
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