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Portrait Painting - Workshop

Explore the foundations of figurative painting while working from a live model, guided by visual demonstrations and personalized instruction. Develop your unique style through targeted feedback, compositional insights, and a deeper understanding of paint, color mixing, and technique.

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • Earn 10% back in points
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    If you find the same class on the same dates for less within 48 hours of booking, send us the link. We match the price as credit or the difference.

  • 315 E 62nd St, New York, NY
  • 6 hours over 2 sessions

Start Dates (0) $230/person

  • Price includes $50 registration fee.

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Class Description

Description

Students will create one painting over the course of this two day workshop working from a live model. The workshop will begin with visual demonstrations detailing proportion, color, and painting technique. Additionally, through a brief slideshow, students will have the opportunity to develop language for their desired style.

Students are encouraged to make work in whatever style they choose—this workshop can be beginner friendly or catered to the more advanced painter. Students can expect a stronger understanding of paint, color mixing, composition and new ways of seeing.

Additional Information:

  • Cloth rags (old t-shirts are fine)
  • Canvas or canvas board (at least size 14x14", larger is fine as well)
  • Disposable palette paper
  • Palette knife
  • Brushes (try to get a variety of sizes and shapes)
  • One or two jars
  • Paints: Titanium white, naples yellow hue, burnt sienna, burnt umber, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, sap green
  • Optional paints: cadmium red hue, cerulean blue, light magenta, cadmium green, lemon yellow
  • If you are painting with oil: odorless turpenoid, linseed oil, brush cleaner
  • If you are painting with acrylic: retarder

School Notes:

Please note, New York School of the Arts charges a $50 one-time registration fee for students who are new to their school. This is automatically added to the cost of your enrollment (and already included in the price listed on this course). If you are a returning student to NYSA, please let us know and we will refund you $50.

Refund Policy

Class Cancellation:

Classes and workshops are subject to cancellation if the minimum number of students required for a session is not met. Notification will be sent to registered students five days before the class is scheduled to begin.

Refunds:

To receive a refund, you must notify us in writing at [email protected]. There is a $15 administrative fee for each refund. 

  • In order to receive a full refund, students must withdraw from a class or workshop fourteen (14) business days prior to the first day of classes.
  • Students withdrawing from a class and workshop during the week before the beginning of the quarter will receive a 70% refund as school credit if within fourteen (14) business days of the start of the class.
  • No refunds will be made after the second class without medical documentation and no refunds will be made after a workshop begins.
  • Ceasing to attend class without notifying the school does not constitute withdrawal from class.
  • Refunds are issued in the same form as payment. Refunds are issued within thirty days from request in the form of the same payment. Registration and service fees are non-refundable.
  • Refund requests are also subject to a 5% CourseHorse processing fee.

Transfers:

All transfers must occur before the second meeting of class. Transfers from one course into another may incur additional fees, depending on the transfer. Transferring from one workshop to another is not permitted. There is a $15 administrative fee for each transfer.

Holidays & Canceled Lessons:

We are closed for Thanksgiving, winter, and spring break. If we must close due to the weather, we will send out an email. If classes are canceled, the instructor will work with the school office to schedule a make-up date. We do not refund/prorate for weather closure, and our make-up policy still applies.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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