The Painted Veil with Samantha Stover
Workshop | Available
A portrait (and hat!) workshop about seeing and not seeing; disambiguation and obscurity; the gaze within and beyond the shadows. We will work with the model in a 2-day long pose featuring a headdress or large hat. Demonstrations will be in oil. Participants may work in any medium but painting is suggested.
Instruction will be on the structure and significance of:
- The skull and facial features as they relate to hair mass, neck and collar bone
- Light and shadow as it reveals or conceals the portrait
- Effects of opacity and transparency
- Balancing psychological elements of portraiture with decorative embellishment
- Relevant color theory and palette optimization
- Materials List for Oil Painting:
-Minimum 16x20 - Maximum 30x40 canvas or panel
Colors:- Lead White (optional)
- Titanium white
- Earth yellow (ochre, Naples, etc)
- Cadmium Yellow (or other bright yellow)
- Earth Red (burnt sienna, oxide, Terre rosa, etc)
- Cadmium Red (or naphthol, etc)
- Burnt Umber
- Ivory Black
- Alizarin Crimson
- Viridian
- Ultramarine Blue
- Blue such as Cerulean, Cobalt, Kings Blue, or Pthalo if used sparingly
Any other colors of your choice, please bring your favorites.
Selection of brushes - which are Clean. Flexible bristles and soft synthetic in various shapes and sizes.
Palette of choice, preferably a rigid one.
Palette Knife
Linseed oil & receptacle or container
Paper towels
- Gentle soap for washing brushes
- Materials other than Oil are optional and ok: Acrylic paint, pastel, watercolor, drawing, etc.
Samantha Stover
Samantha Stover grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Art History from McGill University and a Masters in Fine Art, cum laude, from the New York Academy of Art. Throughout her academic studies in art, she focused her concentration on Drawing Techniques: historical methods and materials as well as figure-drawing exclusively from life. She learned painting, predominantly, as a copyist in New York and Washington, DC and she has traveled widely through Europe studying master drawings and paintings. Her current work involves figuration and the power of creative expression. Drawing also on her previous experience as a theatrical costume designer, she is influenced by the performative and communicative capacity of the human form and spirit. She employs the practices of her traditional training and her experience with the figure in motion to capture fleeting observations, emotions and memories.
To view more of Samantha's work online, visit www.samanthastover.com