Long Pose Figure Painting: Female Front
Class | Registration opens 12/30/2024 9:00 AM PST
Join Jeff Watts in this 5 week class breaking down the figure in a 15-hour long painting. Emphasis will be on planning/preparation of a finessed studio painting and the week to week execution of it in oil. Each week a section of the painting will be demoed, showing how to link together various wet-into-wet sections that you paint together to ultimately make a completed painting. Reference will be provided. In this class you will be painting a female front pose.
- This class will be filmed for Phase V of the Watts Atelier Online Program. Please hold questions and comments until after filming has ended.
- This class will use oil painting materials.
https://www.wattsatelier.com/materials/#Painting
Students should use a palette appropriate for their skill level (monochrome, zorn, warm/cool or uncontrolled).
Student should use a size 16x20 surface. There are four choices for a surface: centurion, fredrix red label, fredrix green label or masonite with gesso.
Links to brushes, surfaces, paint etc available through the link above.
Jeffrey Watts
Jeff Watts studied at The California Art Institute where he was soon invited to teach as he began his illustration career in the movie industry. However, Jeff’s desire to become an easel painter would draw him back to San Diego where he started a small life drawing and painting studio which has evolved into Watts Atelier of the Arts now managed by Jeff and his wife, Krista.
Jeff's oil paintings have won numerous awards including First Place Portrait category and Second Place Landscape category from the Artist's Magazine, two consecutive Second Place Awards at the Salon International Exhibition, two Honor Awards from the Portrait Society of America, 3 Awards of Excellence from Oil Painters of America and 3 Top 100 Awards from Arts for the Parks. Jeff has received feature articles in Art of the West, Southwest Art, American Artist and Workshop Magazine. He holds Master Signature member status from the Oil Painters of America and is a Signature member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association and an artist member of the California Art Club. Jeff participates in the prestigious Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and was recently honored with a Solo Exhibition at the Taos Art Museum and Fechin House. He is represented by Trailside Galleries in Scottsdale, AZ and Jacksonhole, WY and Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio, Texas. For more information regarding Jeff’s fine art visit
www.JeffreyRWatts.com.