Paint Colorful Portraits
Layer Up Captivating Colors in your Portraits
This workshop will explore painting portraits with both planned and spontaneous brushwork with a focus on capturing facial features. Through glazing, layering up mingling colors and unique touches, you can create your own impression of the model with creative color and luminescent light.
Day One: It’s all About Relationships.
– Relationships of the features of the face.
– Shapes & Values
– Painting Eyes demonstration and paint-along.
– Selecting images to paint from.
– Tracing provided of my photo or you can use your own images.
– Sketching and Painting a value study to get to know your subject.
– Start watercolor portrait (Monday & Tuesday) – layering up color.
– Sharing of 1color portrait.
Day Two: Continued Portrait to Finish.
– Finish full color watercolor portrait.
– Start your own portrait or use one of my images.
– How to finesse your portrait.
– Sharing of finished portraits or portrait in progress.
– Tuesday night Demonstration
Day Three: Morning Portrait Demonstration Exploring Color
– Continue to work wherever you are. Start a new portrait if you’d like.
– One on one time with each artist.
– Sharing.
Goal: For each student to complete one or multiple full color portrait(s) depending on their experience. In addition to an eye study, rough sketch, pencil and one color painting study.
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Cindy Briggs bio:
Cindy Briggs, NWS, NWWS
From Midway, Utah to charming historical villages throughout Europe, Cindy Briggs enthusiastically shares the creative journey with her students. Teaching plein air painting internationally and in studio workshops for 25 years, her subjects range from intimate portraits and flowers to seaside villages, vineyards, and the dramatic landscapes of Zion. Her paintings are filled with captivating color and light.
A National Watercolor Society Signature Member (NWS) and Northwest Watercolor Society Signature Member (NWWS), Cindy is recognized as a master artist. Her work has been featured in many international juried exhibitions among other Watercolor Society, University, Gallery and Museum exhibitions. She has been published in Watercolor Magazine, Outdoor Painter, American Watercolor and Plein Air Magazine, plus in local and regional magazines.
Cindy has worked with Daniel Smith for decades as a featured demonstrator and instructor. She regularly leads watercolor workshops for the Smithsonian Art Studios, University of Utah, and Terracotta.art and French Escapade, among Watercolor Societies, Art Centers and is teaching portraits for Watercolor Live 2023. She has also served as a juror for watercolor societies, regional events and national arts festivals.
With a degree in Design and working 15 years as an Art Director for Nationally recognized Advertising Agencies, Cindy had in depth training in photography, lighting and composition while on the job. She now produces numerous online watercolor program packages, providing a virtual front row seat for all of her students through videos and “live” paint-alongs.
Cindy’s workshops give you experience in creating captivating compositions, developing color harmony, utilizing the power of luminescent light and colorful shadows, as you celebrate your own personal style. Midway, Utah
