Date: 6 Mondays: November 3, 10, 17, 24, December 1, 8, 2025
Time: 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Artist/Instructor: Stephanie Schirm
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Price: $325.00 +hst

The Drawn & Painted Portrait

In this course, Stephanie takes you through the basics of drawing portraits down to the finer details. Learn about proportion, structure, and how to draw facial features by drawing three different types of portraits. Next Students transition from black and white graphite to colour in paint. Photo references will be initially used, then finishing the course by working from a live model.

Material needed:

• Canson XL Drawing pad: 70lbs- 11x14 – Smooth Surface

• Small Set of graphite pencils

• White Eraser

• Kneadable Eraser

• 16 x20 Canvas Pad (not canvas paper)

• Polymer (acrylic) or if working with traditional oil / water soluble oils the appropriate Odorless solvent

• Your choice of opaque non-toxic paints (acrylics, water-soluble oils, traditional oil (odorless solvents only) including colours:

  • Cadmium Red

  • Ultra- marine Blue

  • Cadmium Yellow

  • Paynes Grey

  • Alizarin Crimson

  • Titanium White

• Flat Paint palettes

• Rags, towels, water container

• Synthetic or bristle brushes assortment large to small

If you aren’t able to pay online, or if you’d like to register over the phone or in person, please don’t hesitate to call us at 519-942-9560 or visit us in store at 158 Broadway, Orangeville! (All prices are in CAD +hst)