In The Flesh: Mastering Color Workshop

In the Flesh: Mastering Color in the Portrait Workshop: Online

Manu Saluja | Summer 2025 | May 30 - Jun 1

Class Description:

Have you been struggling to create skin tones that are both luminous and colorful when painting a portrait?

Join MFA and CFA Faculty Manu Saluja for her three-day on-line, live workshop offering the tools you’ll need to mix flesh tones in oil paint with confidence. The key to vibrant skin tones is mixing color with an understanding and control of value, hue and chroma. During morning demonstrations on Zoom, Manu will cover topics such as: color theory for oil painters, translating light and shadow to color, and neutralizing skin tones using various approaches. In your home studio, you'll create a portrait over three days using a digital photographic portrait reference provided to you. Each day, you will receive a one-on-one personalized critique over Zoom. Invaluable educational materials and videos are provided for you to keep.

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Workshop Dates:

Scheduled occurrences for the next session of this workshop are as follows:

Day	Date	Time
Day 1:	5/30/2025	10 am - 5 pm ET
Day 2:	5/31/2025	10 am - 5 pm ET
Day 3:	6/01/2025	10 am - 5 pm ET

Before Class - Welcome & How to Prepare for Class
Day 1 - Drawing the Portrait, Color Theory and Your Palette
Day 2 - The “Lay-In” Stage
Day 3 - Finishing Touches
After Class - Wrap Up

$650.00
Online
3 Days
Beginner to Advanced

Meet Your Instructor

Manu Saluja

Instructor

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.