Master Copy Painting - Michela Mansuino

Description

Prerequisites: Students should demonstrate paint handling proficiency, command of drawing skills including perspective, and/or have completed Level I and II Drawing in our Youth Studies program. Art supplies provided and included in tuition. Paint a copy of your favorite masterpiece from history! Copying master artists is a time-honored tradition that continues today at the National Gallery of Art and teaches invaluable skills about visual acuity, value relationships, color confidence, composition, and historical painting processes. Choose a painting you wish to copy (Michela provides guidance on obtaining high-quality prints) or select from her collection. You'll practice the solutions that great artists have mastered, working through traditional methods from grisaille to duotone to full color. INSTRUCTOR BIO: Michela Mansuino teaches youth and adult classes at The Arts of Great Falls, as well as teaching at Studio Incamminati's Human Realist Program in Philadelphia, where she studied. Michela has won numerous awards, including two honorable mentions from the Portrait Society of America, first prize in the Strictly Painting Competition, and was a finalist in the ARC International Salon. CLASS DATES: Saturdays, every other weekend: 1/18, 1/25, 2/8, 2/22, 3/8. Makeup date, if needed on Friday, 3/20 6 pm - 9 pm.