Date: Thursdays, May 4-25, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM Pacific Time/1:00-4:00 PM Eastern Time/6:00-9:00 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Oil or acrylic – instructor demos will be in oil
Demystify portrait painting in this introductory exploration of painting a face in stages. Indirect painting, or building up a painting in layers, is one of the keys to creating believable lifelike flesh tones and gorgeous sculptural form. In this course, we take our time to create a single portrait painting from a photo reference and learn to parse the alchemy of portraits into four distinct manageable stages: drawing, value-based underpainting, color, and finishing techniques. Weekly demonstration will focus on the development of form with special attention paid to structural anatomy, principles of light color, and the unique tools of indirect painting such as transparency and opacity, glazing, and broken color. Leave this class with a method you can practice and apply to any subject matter. The Instructor will demonstrate in oil but any opaque medium is acceptable.
Grace Athena Flott (b. 1990) is a figurative realist painter from Spokane, Washington. Southwest Arts Magazine awarded her First Place in Artistic Excellence in January 2022. Major exhibitions include Figurativas 2021at the Museum of Modern European Art (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain; Shades of Blue at Equity Gallery, NYC, NY, 2021; and recurring exhibitions at Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA, 2019, 2020, 2021. A finalist in the 2020 BP Portrait Award and Art Renewal Center competitions, her work has appeared in Fine Art Connoisseur, The Artist’s Magazine, Realism Today, Seattle Refinedand numerous print and online journals. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Juliette Aristides Atelier. Her first solo show Exposure Therapy exhibited in May 2022 at Figure|Ground Gallery in Seattle, WA. Grace has been an artist-in-residence at The Hive (Spokane, WA).
Grace is currently a teaching artist with Terracotta, Gage Academy adult and youth programs (since 2016), AIGA (since 2018), and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (since 2019), in addition to teaching privately online.
Her work is held in public and private collections internationally.
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