Premier Coup: The Oil Portrait in One Sitting with Dan Thompson

This Master Class in the study of the head has been designed to enable students of painting to depict the human head more successfully in oil, and is open to students of all levels. Emphasizing a beginning strategy in oil, students will be guided through practical application on three separate, 1 session portraits—tackling movement, the planes of light and shadow, color development  and transitions into a subtle and effective result.  Given the benefits of becoming more decisive with brushstroke manipulation and proficient with edge control, this opportunity to explore constructive interpretations of the head and its subdivisions promises a greater depth of understanding in student painting as well as drawing.

Materials: Bring your preferred canvases, brushes and paints. 

Dan Thompson has exhibited at the National Arts Club, the United States Capitol, Beijing ’s World Art Museum, the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, John Pence Gallery, Arcadia Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the John Noble Museum, The Pasadena Museum of California Art among others.  His awards include the Erlebacher Award from the New York Academy of Art, two Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Awards for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran School of Art, and two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants. Thompson is Dean of Fine Arts of Studio Incamminati School for Contemporary Realist Art and Faculty Chair of the Certificate of Fine Arts department of the New York Academy of Art. He has served on the faculty of The Art Students League of New York, Parsons School of Design, the School of the National Academy of Design and he co-founded two schools of art in New York City.  To read further, please visit DanThompsonArt.com