TUSCUMBIA-This October, internationally-recognized portrait artist Martha Carpenter will be leading two intensive oil painting workshops at her studio in downtown Tuscumbia, AL in cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Art Association. Local artists both aspiring and advanced will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study with an acknowledged master in a small-group setting that facilitates individualized instruction. Basic Oil Painting: Oct. 14th-16th, 2019 and Portrait Painting: Oct. 28th-30th, 2019.
About the Artist:
A native of Sheffield, Alabama, Martha Carpenter graduated in 1973 from Alabama School of the Fine Arts in Birmingham. She then acquired a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, supplemented by attendance at Kentucky Institute for European Studies in Bregenz, Austria, and extensive European study-travel on three occasions.
[Read the artist’s full bio on her website.]
Basic Oil Painting – Martha Carpenter | Oct. 14th-16th, 2019
This workshop is designed for serious students ready to master the essentials of oil painting. Basic Oil Painting may also serve as useful preparation for students who wish to refine their skills before taking Portrait Painting (Oct. 28th-30th).
The cost for Basic Oil Painting is $375 for the three-day intensive workshop, held on location in the artist’s downtown Tuscumbia studio. The registration fee covers easel, taboret, palette, and reference material; a list of additional supplies required for the course is available at request, or upon registration.
Each session of the Basic Oil Painting course will begin with a painting demonstration by the instructor, conducted in the Alla Prima technique using a limited palette (three primary colors and white), using a still life as subject matter. Following the demonstrations students will create their own successful paintings working from still lives which have been placed throughout each day of the workshop.
Students may choose to retain the limited palette or to adopt a more extensive color range for their own projects.
For more information or to request a complete list of supplies, please call the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art at 256-383-0533 or contact curator Mollie Schafer-Thompson by email: curator.tvaa@comcast.
Portrait Painting – Martha Carpenter | Oct. 28th-30th, 2019
This workshop is designed for advanced students seeking intensive, individualized instruction in portrait painting. Students who wish to refine their skills, especially in their use of the Alla Prima technique, before entering the intensive portrait workshop may also register for Basic Oil Painting (14th-16th) as preparation.
Course Description
Using a live model, portrait artist Martha Carpenter will begin the 3-day workshop with a brief demonstration involving canvas preparation, materials usage, color mixture, and a basic layout and value description of the bust portrait.
A second demonstration will introduce general application using the portrait palette and employing the Alla Prima technique. A third demonstration explains refinement, description of detail, and other final steps in completing the portrait.
Following each demonstration, students are encouraged to employ this methodical process in the creation of their own successful portrait painting as Carpenter offers individualized instruction and critique throughout the workshop.
Registration | Materials | Fees
The cost for Portrait Painting is $425 for the three-day intensive workshop, held on location in the artist’s downtown Tuscumbia studio. The registration fee covers easel, taboret, palette, and reference material; a list of additional supplies required for the course is available at request, or upon registration.
For more information or to request a complete list of supplies, please call the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art at 256-383-0533 or contact curator Mollie Schafer-Thompson by email: curator.tvaa@comcast.net
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