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This workshop presented by Luana Luconi Winner, IAPS-MC, PSA-Sig, SPS-MS, PSof Atl-JM will set you on your way to sketching and painting faces with confidence. Artists of all levels of experience will find useful, basic, and essential instruction of the color of the head. With these indispensable notes, you will begin to enjoy painting portraits without hesitation.

Materials will be sent to you the day before the workshop. The lessons and demonstrations will begin with focused attention on multiple skin color combinations. Multiple nuances in hue and shading within specific skin tones. Various ethnicities will be studied and copied as we challenge you to use to the fullest the materials you already have in your studio.

A fundamental understanding of the head will begins with a simplified explanation of the skull’s dimensions, proportions, and assembly of individual features into and onto the head.

Simple diagrams and mixtures will become your color charts for your use as you approach new faces in the future. Further information is available in my book “Painting Classic Portraits: Great Faces Step by Step” published by F+W Media now Penguin Random House. Available in hardcover (mostly used) on Amazon and also as an e- book.