How to Paint a Portrait with Christabel Blackburn, Part 1 | Partnership Editions

Join Portrait Artist of The Year winner, Christabel Blackburn, in her first tutorial on painting a portrait. This class will cover setting up your portrait, with an introduction to materials and tips on how to position your subject, be it self-portrait or painting your partner or child. It will also show you how to arrange your palette. Putting first marks down and mapping out proportions and shadow shapes.

Materials you might need: Oil Paints. Colours Christabel will use are: Titanium White, Unbleached Titanium Dioxide, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium red, Ultramarine Blue, Ivory Black. Brushes: I use flat, square head hogs brushes and synthetic.

Medium: Christabel uses Zest It and linseed Oil and Zest It for cleaning my brushes.

Christabel will be using a primed wooden Board but you can use canvas/canvas board/oil paper. Easel and/or drawing board if taping down paper. Mirror if doing self portrait. Hand held mirror for seeing mistakes.London based artist Christabel Blackburn spent a year in Florence learning traditional drawing and sculpting techniques. She went on to study for two years at the London Atelier of Representational Art where she learnt to paint and continued to develop her skills in sculpting. Christabel won Portrait Artist of The Year on Sky Arts 2020 and has been commissioned to paint singer Nile Rodgers for The Royal Albert Hall.

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