Artisan Academy: Oil Painting Starting Methods From Photos

Instructor: Tina Garrett

DESCRIPTION:
ARC Living Master Tina Garrett shares with her students the practical methods she uses in her award-winning portraiture to help artists make the best paintings they’ve ever made. Students will learn to see and simplify values, create form, and understand edges and chroma to control your composition and create dramatic portraiture using Tina’s practical and easy-to-use strategies.

Tina will demonstrate how to pose and paint from the live model, as well as how to photograph the model and how to edit your photos with and without Photoshop. Tina will teach you how to organize your palette to mix realistic colors, values, and temperatures for different skin types and two easy strategies to achieve an accurate likeness in your portraiture.

Tina will demonstrate three oil painting starting methods, including open grisaille, accurate color wash and Tina’s favorite, selective start, to help students discover the process that will help them achieve their best work. If your portraits look cartoonish or dead, you need this workshop.

LIVE MODEL ETIQUETTE:

Recommended $20 for model tip.  No photographing the model without permission.

BIO:
Tina Garrett
b. 1974
Tina Garrett is one of the most well-recognized women artists in Contemporary Western Art. Her works center on emotion and mood, and they often contain dramatic light or atmospheric effects. Tina has earned recognition as an Art Renewal Center Living Master, (ARCLM) and holds a Master Artist designation from the National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society. Tina is a longtime Portrait Society of America mentor for the PSoA Cecilia Beaux Forum Mentoring Program and in 2024 earned PSoA Signature Status. Tina is Faculty at the PSoA Annual Art of The Portrait Conference as well as Oil Painters of America’s National Conference Faculty and offers mentorship and workshops around the world annually.

Tina’s works have participated in shows around the world including the ARC Salon Exhibition at Sotheby’s NY, and the European Museum of Modern Art, (MEAM) in Barcelona, Spain, and the Salmagundi Club, New York City and Mod Portrait at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM); Oil Painters of America National Exhibition; Portrait Society of America Members Only Exhibition; American Women Artists “Making Their Mark” at the Booth Museum of Western Art; Women Artists of the West National at the Museum of Western Art; Urban Aspect Exhibition at Principle Gallery; and the Go Wild! Exhibition at Gormley’s Galleries in Belfast and Dublin, Ireland.

Tina has created a growing family of private collectors and commissioned clients world wide. To Tina, "There is no greater gift I can receive than another falling in love with my work so deeply that they must own it, bring my work into their home and make it a part of their daily lives. I truly do put so much of myself into each and every work, so loving it, giving it a home, that is the highest compliment.”

 

IMAGES
Top: Tina Garrett, Zephyr, 26x23 inches
Bottom left: Tina Garrett
Bottom right: Tina Garrett,  Ambrosia Gold, 38x46 inches

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