Description
SEAN CHEETHAM
ALLA PRIMA PORTRAIT PAINTING
3 Day Workshop
May 1 -3, 2020
10a – 5:30p
**DUE TO COVID19 THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN POSTPONED – New date will be announced as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding. Be Well.**
This spring we are thrilled to welcome California artist, Sean Cheetham to Alia Fine Art Studios. In this workshop we will focus on learning to paint a portrait from life using Sean’s very distinctive “mud-palette” in oils. This palette will be discussed extensively throughout the workshop. The benefits of working with this palette are value and color control. Through a simple step-by-step process to portrait painting, Sean will discuss how to create harmony and unity, a successful composition, accurate drawing to get a likeness, organizing your palette, color mixing, value, edges, and other topics to help you produce a completed alla prima portrait. We will have two models posing each day so that students will be able to get up close to do successful portrait paintings. The extra model fee is included in the price of the workshop.
Instructor Bio:
Sean Cheetham was born in 1977 in San Francisco, studied at the College of San Mateo, in California, and earned a B.F.A. degree with honors from Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California. His paintings have been included in numerous significant exhibitions internationally including the National Portrait Gallery in London. He has a devoted following of collectors and art students that are inspired by his work and distinctive technique. Primarily a figurative painter, Sean is known for his technical prowess in achieving accuracy and harmony in his alla prima paintings which he credits to a deep understanding of drawing and his own system of mixing colors which he uses adeptly to govern shadows, midtones and highlights. In addition to having an exceptional ability to understand, draw, and paint the human form, Cheetham’s selection of subjects typically in familiar urban scenes contributes a truthful and often raw spirit that makes his work distinctive and a contemporary testimony of our time.
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