Portrait Painting Spring Session 2

Portrait Painting Spring Session 2

Evening Class | FULL

Beginner

5/20/2024-6/24/2024

5:00 PM-8:00 PM EDT on Mon

$395.00

May 20th to June 24th

Improve your skills by enrolling in a 6-week course with accomplished instructor Antonio Lones. Crafting lifelike portraits can be a complex undertaking, particularly when trying to tackle the challenge of skin tones. You will explore this is all you really need for convincing colors in oil paint. 

Things we will cover:
- Maximizing your palette
- working comparatively from the live model
- stages of a painting
- learning a reliable approach to skin tones

Students should expect to complete 1 portrait painting in this class. Model fee is included in tuition.

You can bundle this together with session 2 as well. You can find the bundle here.

  • Supply List (this is for a limited palette)
    Updated supply list will be sent out shortly.
Lones, Antonio

Antonio Lones was born and raised in El Salvador. From a very early age he was involved in artistic activities. His teachers had noticed his affinity for drawing since elementary school, but it wasn’t until 2011 that he was first introduced to formal drawing and painting methods but with no guidance. In 2013, leaving his studies in architecture he moved to the U.S. pursuing ‘the American dream’. He had been very influenced by the realist movement and the classical methodology and as a self-taught artist he kept creating artworks while he was learning a new language. Taking his appreciation for classical painting and portraiture, he started to search for art schools in Boston, which ultimately led him to enroll at ARA Boston in 2018, after receiving a one year full tuition scholarship.

He participated in a group show in 2017/18 which showcased Latino heritage in the Somerville Public Library, MA. In 2020 he won first place in the November self portrait challenge from New Masters Academy with the best technical skill award. In 2021 he won the people's choice award from Richeson Still life and Floral competition. Currently, he is working as instructor while he finishes the main program and starting to build his own series of personal paintings.

You can find him in Instagram here.

Antonio’s Website