Portrait Oil Painting Workshop
Alpine, Wyoming
Are you looking for a way to pass the long cold winter? Pack up those brushes and join professional artist David Dean for 5 days of instruction and practice painting oil portraits in the Old Master's Style. In this workshop, you will be creating a charcoal drawing, underpainting, and adding color to a portrait from a reference of your choosing. There will be multiple demonstrations with plenty of time for questions, interaction, and discussion. You will come away from this class with the framework of skills necessary to capture the beauty of the human face.
What skill level is required?
As long as you are familiar with using oil paints, you're absolutely welcome to join this workshop.
When: Monday, March 10th - Friday, March 14th, 2025, 8:00-5:00 daily
Where: Alpine, Wyoming (Lodging information can be found below)
Cost: $500
Daily Schedule:
Monday - Portrait Graph/ink
Tuesday - Charcoal Drawing
Wednesday - Values/Underpaint
Thursday - Underpainting continued/Mixing color palette
Friday - Color application
All students will be working on a size 12"x16" gessoed board prepared by the instructor. A selection of old master head studies will be available to choose to work from.
Basic Material List:
*Value chart mixing palette
*Gessoed board
*Grid drawing supplies
Oil paints
Brushes
Artist mediums
Table easel (please reach out to lxi@starvalleyarts.com if you don't have one)
Misc. (rulers, charcoal, etc.)
*Included in the registration fee.
A detailed supply list can be found here.
Cobblestone Hotel & Suites has generously offered a discount to all workshop registrants that choose to stay there. Simply use coupon code: SVAC2025 at checkout. Their website can be found here: https://staycobblestone.com/wy/alpine.

