Portrait Workshops Summer Program with Roberto Osti

Portrait Workshops Summer Program with Roberto Osti at the Philadelphia Sketch Club

We are excited to introduce a new portrait drawing workshop series, hosted by renowned artist and educator Roberto Osti. Previously leading our Watercolor Foundations and Figure Drawing with the Old Masters courses, Osti has designed these instructional courses to give you the fundamentals of classic portraiture techniques. You will be able to expand your technical capabilities and develop your personal style while creating vibrant portraits.

This Program is made up of the following classes:

Portrait Drawing with the Masters 3-Week Class: August 19 and 26 (previously August 12th!)

Drawing on Toned Paper for Portrait: August 17

 

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Portrait Drawing with the Masters: August 19 and 26 (previously August 12)

The class held on August 19, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, is dedicated to the reduction technique, very effective in creating volumetric, luminous and contrasted chiaroscuro drawings. This technique permits to achieve a very extensive tonal range, from the lightest to the darkest values, relatively quickly, and it’s an excellent practice for transitioning from the structural to the tonal drawing.

Materials

  • Gray or tan toned paper, Strathmore charcoal will do but you can also try Canson, Mi teintes, Fabriano, Hahnemuhle, Stonhenge
  • Compressed Charcoal pencils. Generals (in hard, medium, soft and extra soft gradations) is a good and cheap brand, Wolff’s Carbon (B, 2B, 4B, 6B) is excellent but a little more expensive; a stick of soft charcoal to tone the sheet of paper.
  • White chalk in pencils or sticks
  • Blending stump, erasers (mars plastic, kneaded eraser, Chamois, General’s Factis mechanical eraser or Tombows Mono Zero mechanical eraser.
  • Sharpening tools and sand paper

Students will be provided with a number of reference images to work from.

The technique for the second class, held on August 26, from 4:30 to 7:30 pm (PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE), will be the Trois Crayons Technique, employing red earth, black and white pastel or colored pencils on toned paper. With this technique, the participant will learn to create vibrant portraits with a minimum of color and practice the essential elements of color manipulation.

Materials

  • Gray or tan toned paper, Strathmore charcoal will do but you can also try Canson, Mi teintes, Fabriano, Hahnemuhle, Stonhenge
  • Pitt Pastel or Cretacolor pastels in pencils in Sanguine red, black and white, you can also use colored pencils, I like Faber Castell Polychromos in Venetian or India red, black and white. Black and white pastels can also be substituted with compressed charcoal and white chalk pencils.
  • Blending stump, erasers (mars plastic, kneaded eraser, Chamois, General’s Factis mechanical eraser or Tombows Mono Zero mechanical eraser.
  • Sharpening tools and sand paper

Drawing on Toned Paper for Portrait: August 17

In this 6-hour, intensive Master class, held on August 17 from 9 AM – 4 PM, the participants will practice portrait drawing on toned paper with charcoal and chalk, drawing 2 long pose portraits, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, practicing a time honored, efficient and fun technique that any figurative artist should practice and master.

During the model breaks and the individual comments, students will receive short lectures and demos to discuss measuring techniques, main volumes and structure of the head, tonal rendering, and mark making methods.

Materials

  • Gray or tan toned paper, Strathmore charcoal will do but you can also try Canson, Mi teintes, Fabriano, Hahnemuhle, Stonhenge
  • Compressed Charcoal pencils. Generals (in hard, medium, soft and extra soft gradations) is a good and cheap brand, Wolff’s Carbon (B, 2B, 4B, 6B) is excellent but a little more expensive; a stick of soft charcoal to tone the sheet of paper.
  • White chalk in pencils or sticks
  • Blending stump, erasers (mars plastic, kneaded eraser, Chamois, General’s Factis mechanical eraser or Tombows Mono Zero mechanical eraser.
  • Sharpening tools and sand paper