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Painting Facial Features - The eyes, nose and lips
Course4.7 average rating (65 reviews)Experience Manu Saluja's ground-breaking workshop that offers essential knowledge on painting the features of the human portrait through clear and in-depth demonstrations.
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Online: Demystifying Portrait Painting - Summer II 2023
CourseIn this online version of the class, students will learn my specific process for approaching portrait painting. We will cover how to draw faces, how to do an underpainting, rendering a painting area by area, and how to optimally manipulate oil paint.
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All Courses, Live Online, Drawing, Painting
Online: Portrait Drawing and Painting- Summer II 2023
CourseEnjoy gaining a foundation in understanding the structure and solidity of the human head. CFA and MFA Faculty member Manu Saluja will guide you through proportion, color theory, and mixing flesh tones as you create a portrait in your home studio.
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All Courses, Live Online, Painting
Online: Painting People of Color - Summer II 2023
CourseIn this class, students will learn how to paint different skin tones using one limited palette. Over this six week course we will paint two portraits from photographs, using models with different skin colors.
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Interview with President David Kratz and Manu Saluja
Overview
Join MFA and CFA faculty, Manu Saluja as she offers essential knowledge on painting the features of the human portrait through clear and in-depth demonstrations. Students will gain an understanding of how eyes, noses and mouths are constructed with dimension and painted with beautiful tones and color shifts.
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Major and minor planes and forms demonstrated with drawings
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Understanding the importance of the light source on the model during painting demo
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How to create a drawing that has structure during painting demo
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How details do not make form, i.e. creating initial drawing of each feature by unifying shadow shapes against light shapes during painting demo
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Organizing the Color palette/mixing flesh tones
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Building major planes with value and color relationships
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Edge handling
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Finishing touches
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Course Overview
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Interview with David Kratz and Manu Saluja
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Drawing the Eye
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About this course
- Free
- 3 lessons
- 0.5 hours of video content
- Learn at your own pace
- Beginner to Advanced
Meet Your Instructor
Manu Saluja
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Manu Saluja received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art, and her BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts where she was mentored by John Frederick Murray. Saluja’s work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (London), the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art (Wisconsin), and the Butler Institute of American Art (Ohio). Winner of the 2019 BP Portrait Travel Award, her resulting paintings were exhibited at the Aberdeen Art Gallery in Scotland in 2020.
Saluja has paintings in public and private collections throughout the U.S., Canada, U.K., and India. In 2023 she was unanimously selected by Mechanics Hall in Worcester, MA to paint a life-size portrait of Sojourner Truth now permanently on view in the Grand Portrait Gallery. She has exhibited her work with numerous galleries including 33 Contemporary, James Baird, Sugarlift, Abend and Dacia, and has been featured in publications such as Huffington Post, Fast Company Design, American Art Collector, Realism Today, Fine Art Connoisseur, News India Times, and Artists & Illustrators. Saluja has taught drawing and painting for over 15 years with courses at NYAA, Montclair State University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Long Island Academy of Fine Art. Born in Brooklyn in 1971, and a longtime resident of Queens, Saluja currently lives and works in Long Island, NY.