Intermediate/Advanced Portrait Painting
Intermediate/Advanced Portrait Painting
Students will work from a live model to capture a painted likeness. Instruction will focus on challenges such as proportion, rule-of-thirds, value control, and color mixing. The instructor will provide demonstrations for the class as well as individualized instruction. You will further develop your own unique artistic voice in a supportive and creative atmosphere. The class will visit MAM’s galleries to be inspired by artworks on view. This class is for intermediate and advanced students who have experience with portraiture.
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Janet Boltax
Janet Boltax has always been powerfully drawn to portraiture and figurative art. During the past 10 years, she has been working on a series of oil portraits in which the paintings are accompanied by interviews she conducts with the sitters. They include 25 portraits of people over 90, 12 portraits of two transgender individuals as they transition, double portraits of identical twins, and others.
She has had numerous solo exhibits of her paintings throughout the U.S., and is also an accomplished printmaker and collagist. Most recently Janet had an extensive article about her work published in the September issue of Artists Magazine along with an online segment which can be accessed here.
She has been teaching art for the past 15 years; the last 10 of them at MAM. Janet loves to teach and is continually striving to introduce new techniques and methods in order to help her students progress and excel in their work."
