Ever thought about painting your own portrait? With our Portraiture Beginner Program, you will learn how to choose which colours to use, where to put shadows, and depict emotion, expression, and feeling in portraiture, laying the framework for you to paint your own portrait. This program consists of four classes, each taught by a different artist.

Luminous and Spontaneous Watercolour Portraits - Discover a new approach to creating expressions and shadows in watercolour portraits with Anna Korteweg. Learn how underpainting can improve your artwork, learn a new approach on how to identify and paint shadows, and how to bring out expressions in features using watercolour. Check out this outline sketch.

Fundamentals of Portraits – Comprehensive Study - Jared Cullum will demonstrate the basics of portrait painting. You'll learn which colours to use and the basic structure so you can sketch people anywhere. Check out this reference photo.

Expressive Portraiture in Watercolour - Discover how to convey emotion and feeling in your watercolour portraiture with Fiona Di Pinto. She will discuss how she illustrates expressive portraits using under-painting to create intensity and bring the skin to life with transparent layers. Check out this reference photo and outline sketch.

Surreal Portraits — Construction through Colour & Value - Arleesha Yetzer will show you how to create rough thumbnails to better plan your portrait and block out the shapes of all facial features. Learn to translate value to colour and suggest hair without getting lost in the details. Check out her reference photo.