Join award-winning oil painter Lori Pensini for an intensive portrait workshop, where she will demystify oil portraiture and guide you through painting with purpose.

In this 4 hour workshop, you will explore a variety of colour combinations using limited palettes, identify personal and emotional responses to colour, and learn how this affects the mood of your artwork.

WORKSHOP OUTLINE:

Introduction
Lori Pensini

Painting Purposefully
Understanding your character
Attaching meaning through storylines

Drawing
Guide to face proportions

Colour
Plan colour choices and mood, applying colour memories, palette selection
Mixing palette

Tonal Painting
Blocking in using limited palette, understanding light /use of shadows

Applying Colour
Blocking in colour
Exploring different colour block combinations on multiple boards
Background choice and influence

Applying detail

MATERIALS INCLUDED:

Oil paints
Brushes
Canson canvas paper
1 x stretched canvas
Mediums
Palette knife
Disposable palette
Easel
*If you have any art materials that you would like to bring along to use, please do so.

Artist Talk
Saturday 27 February
From 9.30am
Free admission
Courthouse Gallery+Studio
16 Edgar Street, Port Hedland

Workshop 1
Saturday 27 February
11:30am – 3:30pm
$180 pp – bookings essential
Courthouse Gallery+Studio,
16 Edgar St, Port Hedland
*Materials and afternoon tea included.

Workshop 2
Sunday 28 February
11:30am – 3:30pm
$180 pp – bookings essential

Karratha, Venue TBC

*Materials and afternoon tea included.