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Expressive Brushwork in Portraits

🖌️ Unleash emotion through painterly freedom. In this 3.5+ hour demo, Suchitra Bhosle guides you through how she balances realism with looseness—making her portraits not only accurate, but alive with energy and mood. 

You’ll learn how to:
🎯 Use bold brush marks to define form while maintaining subtlety in tone and expression
🌗 Navigate value and edge transitions to hold structure and atmosphere in your portraits
🎨 Infuse rhythmic gesture and intentional color shifts to heighten emotional resonance
🧠 Critique and refine your approach—Suchitra begins with student works and shares the real decision-making behind her own process. 

Perfect for portrait painters ready to move beyond precision into expressive confidence—making work that has both likeness and life. 🕒 Runtime: 3.5+ hours

  • Suchitra Bhosle

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  • Professional

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Meet your instructor

Suchitra Bhosle

Suchitra embraces impressionism to depict everyday representational scenes. She excels at capturing and expressing the mood of her subjects, often in contemplative classical settings. This lends a timeless yet intimate quality to her paintings.
Suchitra Bhosle is represented in leading fine art galleries across the USA including Santa Fe, Washington D.C., and California. 

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