PSA Portrait Workshop – October 16th 2010
LIST OF REQUIREMENTS

• Board -size to suit painting-10 layers of newspaper + clips
  
• Mahl Stick
  
• Eraser - kneadable eraser, bristle brush
  
• Dermex  or barrier cream
  
• Masking tape, scissors, ruler
  
• Clean rags, one damp rag to wipe fingers
  
• Apron, Camera, notepad and pen
  
• L’s to frame work at end
  
• Sketch paper
  
• Caliper(like a compass but with 2 metal points no pencil insert), string
  
• View finder
  
• Mirror, Digital Camera, notepad,pen
  
• Tonal gauge, tonal tags , Easel
  
• Pastels, pastel pencils, white colourfix paper (rose beige if prefer not to do oil painting undercoat exercise)
  
• Willow charcoal, or sketch and peel
  
• photo material – childrens portrait or other portrait photo magnifying glass ( I will have some photos for you to use if you have none)
  
• White tissues or glassine paper to store work
  
• Styrofoam tray to place selected pastels on
  
• Credit card to seal work
  *** colourfix colour - your choice but if applying acrylic,ink,watercolour or oils undercoat then white or clear colourfix  paper  is best.  Choice of colours will be determined by your photo reference.  
  
• If you would like to try oil paint undercoat bring suitable colours in oils ex determine this from your photo reference. Bring odourless turps, brushes, rag, liquin or liquol unless you use *Alkyd oils and palette to mix colours.  *NB Alkyd oils dry very quickly(have liquin built in them), I use this in the demonstration they are more intense in colours than acrylic but thinner so they do not lose the tooth of the paper. Can purchase these from Musgraves Stationers and Art, Southport PH: (0755 314010)
  (Oil paints I like to use for portraits are: Winsor &Newton professional quality - Raw sienna, yellow ochre, naples yellow, cad yellow, cad red, permanent alizarin, burnt sienna, raw umber, burnt umber,sap green ivory black,A.S. cobalt violet, indian red and Winton soft mixing white.)
  **  NB if using Winsor and Newton Alkyd oils ( wonderful under pastel paintings as dry sometimes quicker than acrylics) use winsor red, cad red medium, alkyd permanent rose (wonderful for children's skin) or rowney rose madder (quinacridone) and permanent magenta, purple lake alkyd and their white. Brushes to suit (medium size and very small)
     If you undercoat your painting with inks or acrylics then bring these and if you apply this undercoat on watercolour paper then bring some clear primer to put over surface before pastelling

NB  If you wish to contact me with any questions on the above my details are

www.cynthiahargraves.com
www.professionalportraitcommissions.com
email:  cynthia.hargraves@bigpond.com
phone: (07) 5556 0403 (don’t ring on Wednesday day,Wednesday night or thursday night as teach classes then and can’t talk )

PSA Portrait Workshop – 16th October (9am to 4pm)
Timeslot outline:

• 9am – 10:15 a.m. Quick Introduction, Demonstration
• 10.15 a.m. -10.45 a.m. Students do underpaint
• 10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea and watch slideshow
• 11.15 - 12.00 Work on painting
• 12.00 - 12.30 Lunch
• 12.30 - 3.30pm paint
• 3.30pm - 4.00pm finish off, pack up, clean up etc

Thoughts on how will conduct the workshop

• Introduction
• Demonstration- (prepared have completed underwash, middle painting section, completed in a mat)
• Sketch,Alkyd Oil underpainting on white art spectrum paper (have hair dryer)
• Build up painting
• Have completed painting to show
• Slideshow – How to take good portrait photograph, How to alter a bad photo to a good portrait. Samples of Artists Work
• Like to have handout on- portrait papers,talk on pastels, recommended reference books, exercises to improve your portraits