The Teaching Studios of Art®

This figure painting workshop focuses on the use of color in terms of temperature. The instructor, Noah Buchanan, demonstrates that the effective use of a limited palette divides the artist's conception of color into warms, cools, and neutrals. Buchanan lectures on the temperature zones of the nude figure (local temperatures), the temperature effects of light, and how to determine the correct value of each color.

Artists will paint from high-resolution photographs of the nude model, including detailed images of complex areas (head, torso, hands, feet). They will create a preliminary drawing, which will be transferred to the canvas (or panel) prior to the beginning of the workshop. The first part of this course is highly recommended if you need instruction with figure drawing: Figure Drawing with Charcoal and White Chalk on Toned Paper.

This workshop uses the mode of Direct Painting, where the paint is simply mixed on the palette to the desired value/temperature/color and applied directly to the painting without changing the transparency or opacity of the paint, and without calculating effects from various layers/behaviors of paint.

The Instructor demonstrates these methods/techniques and viewers can follow along. In addition, they have the option for personal critiques for an additional fee.

Important: This workshop was filmed live, using the Zoom platform. While the instruction is first rate and beyond reproach, the audio and visual quality is occasionally less so. That is why we price our videos filmed in Zoom less than our other videos that are filmed in HD or 4K.