Portraiture offers us an invaluable glimpse of an individual at a particular juncture in time. We encounter not just an idea, theme, or symbol, but a person, an authentic expression of someone who walked the earth as a distinct human life. As was said by author Norbert Schneider, no other genre of painting is capable of transmitting such an intimate sense of lived presence over so great a distance of time. Delve into portrait painting with this eight day intensive workshop. Working from life and from the masters, you follow traditional ideas and techniques of portrait painting as you develop vital tools for creating skillful portrait paintings. You explore varied working methods through master copies, lectures and group discussions, spending a portion of each day working on topical issues such as drawing, composition, value, color and color theory, as you study the way the master artists of the past have handled such challenges.Over the eight days, you also create one longer painting that develops from drawing to underpainting through full color. Class discussions, slide lectures and instructor demonstrations focus on building skills for successful independent work and also illuminate ways to solve problems when you return to your own studio.
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uliette Aristides is a gifted, passionate, intellectually stimulating artist who seeks to understand and convey the human spirit through art. Juliette teaches in the Beauxs Arts Classical tradition. Juliette Aristides spent ten years acquiring a rigorous education on the principles of classical realism. She began her studies in 1988 under Myron Barnstone in Design Systems. She continued to study drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, then at The Atelier in Minneapolis in the tradition of Richard Lack. This work was followed two years of instruction at the National Academy in New York with Jacob Collins, while also receiving instruction from Carlos Madrid. Juliette spent a year working with a small group of students at Jacob Collins' studio prior to becoming a founding member of the Water Street Studio in Brooklyn, New York
Author of Classical Drawing Atelier, Watson-Guptill, 2006
Classical Painting Atelier, Watson-Guptill, 2008 
