In this workshop, students will learn how to create and practice portraiture from direct observation. Artist Oscar Peterson will teach painting students color-mixing using a limited palette, and paint application methods. For those students drawing with charcoal or graphite, you’ll create definition and contrast with the emphasis placed on light and dark values. All students will explore a straightforward understanding of facial structure and anatomy.
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Meet the Instructor:
Oscar Peterson was born in Harlem, New York, and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He has worked as a professional art director and designer/illustrator for various corporations and non-profits, and as a commissioned fine arts painter who specializes in portraiture.
An alumnus of Pratt Institute and The Art Students League of NY, Peterson has studied with such leading realist painters as Nelson Shanks, Max Ginsberg, and Costa Vavagiakis. His works, both portrait and non-commissioned, are in corporate and private collections and museums across the country.
He uses traditional methods and techniques while incorporating new ideas and personal observations. His preferred medium is oil, although he frequently uses many mediums. Peterson describes his paintings as “realistic with an impressionistic feel” and his artistic style is inspired by the Impressionists and the Old Masters. His approach echoes a favorite quote from Alberto Giacometti; “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
Image courtesy of Oscar Peterson