“Painting Children in Oil”
August 19-23, 2024
10:00 am to 4:30 pm each day
“Violet” by Patricia Watwood
In this 5-day workshop, American figurative artist Patricia Watwood will teach you the special skills you need to create a portrait of a child. For successful portraiture of young people, you need special technical and project planning skills:
creating good references that are well lit and capture a natural smile
understanding the special proportions, anatomical structures, colors and values suited to young faces
understanding what helps you capture a fresh expression and design
combining working from observation and invention
In this workshop we will have a young model and work through these various stages—demonstrating a photo session and lighting; drawing and studying the special character of children at various ages of development, and then creating a color oil sketch. We will work some with our young model, and use photo reference and prints for resolution.
Registration is $675.
Payment can be sent via check to our studio at:
GACA, 4814 Washington Blvd, Suite 322, St. Louis, MO. 63108
or you can use Zelle with our email: gacastudio.info@gmail.com
Workshops take place in the GACA’s studio, located in the Pierce Arrow Building,
4814 Washington Blvd, Suite 322, St. Louis, MO. 63108
Patricia Watwood at GACA
REGISTRATION for workshop
For more information on Patricia Watwood, please visit her website at:
http://www.patriciawatwood.com/.
PATRICIA WATWOOD BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1971, St. Louis, Missouri, Lives in Brooklyn, NY
Patricia Watwood is a leading figure in the contemporary figurative realist movement, known for her classical paintings, drawings and portraits in oil. Her narrative subjects are primarily women with themes of allegory, myth and archetype. Her portrait of Ida B. Wells was commissioned by the Kennedy School at Harvard. Watwood has exhibited at the Beijing World Art Museum, The European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), The Butler Museum, and is in the collections of The St. Louis University Museum of Art, and The New Britain Museum of American Art. She is the First Vice President of the Salmagundi Club of New York. Her book, The Path of Drawing, was published by Monacelli Studio Press in 2022.
Instagram @patriciawatwood Facebook @patriciawatwoodstudio
Materials List
• 1 smooth linen canvas (acrylic or oil ground) 16 x 20 to 20x24
• I prefer a high quality stretched linen canvas, like this:
https://www.dickblick.com/products/fredrix-pro-series-belgian-linen-canvas/
Fredrix, Centurion, Dick Blick, Masterpiece are all brands that make a stretched linen canvas. You want a medium to fine weave for portraiture.
• Paints: Professional Grade Oil Paints
• White (Gamblin Flake White Replacement)
• Radiant Yellow (Gamblin) or Brilliant Yellow
• Yellow Ochre Deep (Michael Harding)
• Brilliant Pink (Holbein)
• Cad Red Light (Gamblin)
• Alizarin Crimson
• Burnt Sienna (M. Harding or Gamblin)
• Raw Umber
• Viridian Green
• Cinnabar Green Deep (Holbein)
• Kings Blue
• Ultramarine Blue
Brushes
• 2 larger bristle long filberts size 8-12 (i.e. Rosemary Ultimate Filbert, size 12)
• 1 Medium badger fan brush, or other soft mop/fan brush
• 2-3 white nylon round size 2 (round and pointy)
• 4 gold nylon or sable brushes in filberts (i.e. Rosemary Eclipse longer filbert size 10
• 1 small sable or gold nylon round size 4 (i.e. Rosemary Series 99 Pure Sable size 4)(small and pointy)
Other Equipment
• Palette (mine is a 10x14 to 12 x 16 wooden oval) I recommend the “Salmagundi Traditional palette” (New Wave Art) or “Feather’s Touch” from Jerry’s Artarama
• Palette knife, 2.25” diamond point shape like Holbein 1066S #41
• Medium aluminum palette cup- or empty 2-4 oz. jar
• Brush tank, (important!) like a Silicoil or 8 oz. mason jar with lid--- MUST have for brush rinsing.
• Paper towels and at least one painting rag (cut up old t-shirt)
• Gamsol or similar odorless mineral spirits
• Stand oil, Or Gamblin Galkyd medium
• 2 sticks of vine charcoal, medium hardness
• 11 x 14 or 14 x 17 sketchbook (or larger), like Strathmore 400 series drawing pad, and 2B pencils and erasers (kneaded eraser and white vinyl)
• Personal small sketchbook for notes