Pastel Techniques for Painterly Portraits with Alain Picard DVD

Pastel Techniques for Painterly Portraits with Alain Picard DVD

Get ready to paint beautiful, luminous pastel portraits with Alain Picard’s painterly approach. In this pastel painting workshop, you’ll learn how to paint a portrait of a young girl using a loose approach inspired by master portraitists such as John Singer Sargent and Sorolla–suggesting realism without overly rendering.

You’ll start by learning how to work from a photographic reference to create the composition and use layers of color to build up the face and background, starting with simplified shapes. Alain then shows you how to match the colors of the skin, both the true colors and highlight and shadows created by the lighting of the setting, and how to convey curly hair without drawing each strand individually. Finally, you’ll learn how to build up the features of eyes, nose and mouth and add in final details to give the portrait that sense of life.