**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Learn to paint lifelike portraits using time-tested 19th-century atelier principles alongside contemporary techniques. Begin with a precise linear block-in, transfer your drawing to canvas, develop an underpainting, complete a full-color pass, and finish with refined details.
Required Supplies
Portrait Painting in Oil
Supplies
Drawing Supplies
Drawing pencils
Eraser
Pencil sharpener
Drawing paper
Artist's tape (masking or painter's tape is fine)
Painting Supplies
Oil painting brushes (sizes 2–6)
Palette
Palette knife
Paper towels
Oil Paint Colors
Titanium White
Ivory Black
Raw Umber
Burnt Umber
Yellow Ochre
Vermilion Red
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Viridian Green
Painting Surface
One small to medium pre-stretched canvas (approximately 14 × 17 inches or similar size)
Reference
A printed photo reference for your portrait or a mirror if you plan to paint a self-portrait. Odorless mineral spirits
Special Notes
***Students painting from photos need to come to the class prepared with printed versions of their images***
Instructor
Joseph Mattus
A recent addition to the Painting & Drawing faculty at Crealdé, Joseph Mattus has a B.F.A. in illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He later graduated from Grand Central Atelier, where he studied under nationally recognized Jacob Collins, Joshua LaRock, Scott Waddell, Justin Wood and others. Since completing a five-year study in New York, Joseph has taught privately. As a new Florida resident, he has entered several local exhibitions, winning Best in Show at the Dunedin Art Center, the Pinellas Park Art Society exhibitions and the Winter Garden Art Association “SOBO” Annual exhibition.