Join artist Miriam Rosenthal for a one day intensive portrait painting workshop. In this workshop, participants will be working from photo references while learning an efficient and expressive approach to painting. In this shorthand/direct method of painting, students will be instructed step-by-step through the process of painting a “finished” portrait painting.
Students will start straight on the canvas with a dry brush drawing and follow that with placing colours and brushstrokes in a concise way that will achieve all the complexity and forms of the portrait. They will also experience how to play with thinner and thicker layers of paint to convey form and texture.
This workshop will leave the participant with more confidence painting in an expressive manner while still maintaining the look of an academic portrait painting.
Miriam Rosenthal is a painter and draftsman based out of Toronto. She graduated from the Academy of Realist Art, and during her time studying she was awarded two scholarships from the ARA, as well as a highly regarded scholarship from the Art Renewal Center. Her work has been featured in multiple shows and is also now in a few private collections. Miriam has been instructing at the Academy of Realist Art for the past 5 years and runs frequent drawing and painting workshops through the year.