Exploring Skin Tones 2 Day Workshop Summer 2025
In-Person Workshop | Available
Exploring Skin Tones
Whenever painting a figure, there are three elements that need to be accounted for - hue, value, and chroma. The difficulty lies in being able to observe how these elements shift over the course of a figure's topography in relation to the light, and then being able to mix what you see in paint. This workshop will teach students how to observe and paint these shifts from lighter and darker skin toned figures, through the use of a color study.
Color studies allow a student to focus on color, and value without the burden of proportion. It also allows a student to edit what they see through the use of planes; A way of conceptualizing the figure into a series of simple, manageable shapes that illustrate color and value shifts.
To make this process more accommodating, we will start off with grisaille (monochromatic) color studies, and then a limited palette of red, yellow, and blue. Since most skin tones can be mixed with a combination of these three colors, it allows for manageability, and versatility. There will be a different model each day, with the morning session being grisaille, and the afternoon being limited palette.
John’s teaching method includes one on one critiques, and demos.
John Asimacopoulos
John Asimacopoulos started as a student at the Academy of Realist Art Boston in September 2015, after making the decision to switch from a medical career to pursue an artistic one. His studies did not go to waste though, as they gave him knowledge, and appreciation of the human body, especially through his study of anatomy, which included dissection. John applied what he learned, and started teaching artistic anatomy, and figure drawing at the school in 2018. He graduated from the school in 2021.
He has won numerous awards, including two Art Renewal Center scholarships in 2017, and 2019, the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship Fund in 2017, the Head Start Student Competition in 2017, and second place in the Richeson Still Life & Floral Competition in 2021. He has been involved in group shows at Bowersock Gallery in Provincetown, and the Portsmouth Music and Arts Center. He has also juried for the 3rd Annual Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition in 2021.
He is currently working on a series of narrative paintings exploring the theme of transformation.
You can find his work on Instagram here