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Portrait Painting
SOLD OUT
$350
USD
$350
USD
7 Wednesdays (April-May)
April 1, 8, 15, 22, 30, May 13, 20
DATES
April 1, 8, 15, 22, 30, May 13, 20
5:30-8:30PM
TIME
Tyler Berry
INSTRUCTOR
All levels/ages
LEVELS/AGES
In this 7 week class, artists will learn the fundamentals of painting a cropped portrait. With an emphasis on structure and anatomy, Tyler will help students in understanding likeness through careful observation of proportion, skeletal landmarks, and abstract shape design. We will discuss color, composition, and placing a cropped portrait on the canvas intentionally.
There will be one pose over the 7-week class. The process begins with thumbnailing a composition, and then working up a completed color study of the painting. We will proceed to the block-in stage of the final painting, which aims to capture the likeness and character through accurate proportion, color, shape design and structural anatomy, drawing directly on canvas with a brush. After the block-in is complete, students will move into a thin grisaille pass, and then move onto a full color pass.
Comparative measurement, materials, structure and color will be discussed. Artists of all skill levels are encouraged to join and improve their portrait painting skills!
Surface and Brushes
1 canvas or substrate between 12x16- 16x20”
1 or 2 small canvases or substrates around 8x10” for color studies
Variety of small and medium brushes- I use bristle, synthetic and sable rounds sizes 2-6.
Odorless Mineral Spirits, turp jar with airtight lid
Rags or paper towels
Palette, palette cup for medium
Medium- I use 50/50 Oderless Mineral Spirits and linseed oil
Simplified Flesh Palette:
Raw Umber
Van Dyck Brown OR Burnt Umber
Ivory Black
Alizarin Claret or Alizarin Crimson Permanent
Burnt Sienna or Transparent Oxide Red
English Red or Cadmium Red Light
Cadmium Orange
Lead or Cremnitz White (or titanium white if you prefer)
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Tyler’s work holds a personal sophistication honed through a lifelong dedication to truthful observation, restraint and harmony, and fidelity to nature. His work is both an exploration and expression of humanity, pathos, and the natural world. The language of drawing, form, and light maintains in him a dialogue with the Old Masters. His paintings are a search for balance between the universal and particular, an attempt at
humble authenticity.
Tyler Berry (b. 1994) was raised in rural Connecticut. Upon receiving his BFA in 2016 from the University of Hartford, he would work as an animator in Greece and then Poland on the feature film Loving Vincent. During this formative years, he immersed himself in the work of the Old Masters, studying and copying in the museums of Europe.
A graduate and former core instructor of Grand Central Atelier’s four-year core program, Tyler lived and worked in New York City for many years before recently moving to New Salem, MA to be an instructor and artist-in-residence at the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art. His work hangs in collections internationally, throughout the US, Europe, Japan, and China. He is the recipient of numerous awards and has participated in group shows throughout New England, New York City, and Europe, notably at Salmagundi Club and Sotheby’s in NYC, and the MEAM in Barcelona.
Portrait Painting
$350
USD
SOLD OUT
$350
USD
In this 7 week class, artists will learn the fundamentals of painting a cropped portrait. With an emphasis on structure and anatomy, Tyler will help students in understanding likeness through careful observation of proportion, skeletal landmarks, and abstract shape design. We will discuss color, composition, and placing a cropped portrait on the canvas intentionally.
There will be one pose over the 7-week class. The process begins with thumbnailing a composition, and then working up a completed color study of the painting. We will proceed to the block-in stage of the final painting, which aims to capture the likeness and character through accurate proportion, color, shape design and structural anatomy, drawing directly on canvas with a brush. After the block-in is complete, students will move into a thin grisaille pass, and then move onto a full color pass.
Comparative measurement, materials, structure and color will be discussed. Artists of all skill levels are encouraged to join and improve their portrait painting skills!
Surface and Brushes
1 canvas or substrate between 12x16- 16x20”
1 or 2 small canvases or substrates around 8x10” for color studies
Variety of small and medium brushes- I use bristle, synthetic and sable rounds sizes 2-6.
Odorless Mineral Spirits, turp jar with airtight lid
Rags or paper towels
Palette, palette cup for medium
Medium- I use 50/50 Oderless Mineral Spirits and linseed oil
Simplified Flesh Palette:
Raw Umber
Van Dyck Brown OR Burnt Umber
Ivory Black
Alizarin Claret or Alizarin Crimson Permanent
Burnt Sienna or Transparent Oxide Red
English Red or Cadmium Red Light
Cadmium Orange
Lead or Cremnitz White (or titanium white if you prefer)
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Meet your Instructor
Tyler Berry
Tyler’s work holds a personal sophistication honed through a lifelong dedication to truthful observation, restraint and harmony, and fidelity to nature. His work is both an exploration and expression of humanity, pathos, and the natural world. The language of drawing, form, and light maintains in him a dialogue with the Old Masters. His paintings are a search for balance between the universal and particular, an attempt at
humble authenticity.
Tyler Berry (b. 1994) was raised in rural Connecticut. Upon receiving his BFA in 2016 from the University of Hartford, he would work as an animator in Greece and then Poland on the feature film Loving Vincent. During this formative years, he immersed himself in the work of the Old Masters, studying and copying in the museums of Europe.
A graduate and former core instructor of Grand Central Atelier’s four-year core program, Tyler lived and worked in New York City for many years before recently moving to New Salem, MA to be an instructor and artist-in-residence at the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art. His work hangs in collections internationally, throughout the US, Europe, Japan, and China. He is the recipient of numerous awards and has participated in group shows throughout New England, New York City, and Europe, notably at Salmagundi Club and Sotheby’s in NYC, and the MEAM in Barcelona.
Tyler’s work holds a personal sophistication honed through a lifelong dedication to truthful observation, restraint and harmony, and fidelity to nature. His work is both an exploration and expression of humanity, pathos, and the natural world. The language of drawing, form, and light maintains in him a dialogue with the Old Masters. His paintings are a search for balance between the universal and particular, an attempt at
humble authenticity.
Tyler Berry (b. 1994) was raised in rural Connecticut. Upon receiving his BFA in 2016 from the University of Hartford, he would work as an animator in Greece and then Poland on the feature film Loving Vincent. During this formative years, he immersed himself in the work of the Old Masters, studying and copying in the museums of Europe.
A graduate and former core instructor of Grand Central Atelier’s four-year core program, Tyler lived and worked in New York City for many years before recently moving to New Salem, MA to be an instructor and artist-in-residence at the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art. His work hangs in collections internationally, throughout the US, Europe, Japan, and China. He is the recipient of numerous awards and has participated in group shows throughout New England, New York City, and Europe, notably at Salmagundi Club and Sotheby’s in NYC, and the MEAM in Barcelona.