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Key Principles in Realistic Portraiture

🎨 Master the foundations of realistic portraiture. In this 1+ hour demo, Casey Childs guides you from inspiration to execution, showing how to construct a portrait using value structure and the Munsell Color System.

You’ll learn how to:

🖌️ Research and draw inspiration from the grandmasters of portraiture
🎨 Build a strong value structure before applying color
🌟 Improve chroma and color relationships in your portrait mixtures
📐 Develop a repeatable process for steady, confident progress in portrait painting


Perfect for painters who want a clear, structured approach to creating lifelike, vibrant portraits. 🕒 Runtime: 1+ hour

  • Casey Childs

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Casey Childs

Casey's work as a whole encompasses an exploration of the human experience. His interest in the people around him comes from the idea that we look at people every day, but we never really stop to SEE them. In every painting he strives to capture the beauty, variations and complexities of the human form.
The goal of his portrait work is to capture the soul of the individual–not just their likeness. He is inspired by the figurative works of Sargent, Fechin, Thayer, Caravaggio and John Giarrizzo. John, Casey's art professor at Northwest College, instilled in him a great love of art and an immense desire to create it. John's work and ideas have found their way into Casey. Casey sees his work as a self-portrait in that the subjects of his paintings are all a part of him, each painting a learning experience and an exploration of himself as an artist.

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