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Course overview

Painting an object with a constant local color can help to clarify the topography and structure of a complex form. Using a monochromatic palette, instructor Aiden Barker-Hill guides students through a plaster cast foot painting. Beginning with a block in drawing in charcoal, learn techniques for measuring angles and shapes. Next, explore the specificity of form by identifying precise shadow shapes. A clear sense of light and shadow will be established by laying in flat values. As the painting progresses, an incremental value gradation will be introduced in the sequential layers of an underpainting in acrylic followed by a more detailed pass in oil.

  • Blocking in a complex form

  • Practice measurement techniques

  • Explore shadow shape specificity

  • Develop an incremental value structure

  • Building the light mass with spot checking

  • Create subtle value transitions

Course curriculum

    1. Student Orientation Video

    2. Join your community!

    3. Interview with David Kratz

    1. Block In and Drawing

    1. Underpainting in Acrylic

    1. Final Pass in Oil

About this course

  • $69.99
  • 6 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

Meet your instructor

Aidan Barker-Hill

Instructor

Aidan Barker-Hill is originally from Reno, Nevada. He received his BFA from Laguna College of Art and Design in California and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. His studio practice is centered around portraiture and depictions of the human form. He currently resides in New York and teaches painting at the NYAA and is enormously thankful to have the opportunity to pass his knowledge onto students through painting classes. Barker-Hill is also a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, an Art Renewal Center Finalist, and is represented by Arcadia Contemporary in NYC.

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