This is a 6 week course, running on Wednesday evenings.

About Daniel
Daniel Connell was awarded a PhD from the University of South Australia in 2020. His research explores portraiture as a socially engaged practice. His work has been selected for the Lester Prize, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, The Prospect Portrait Prize, the RSASA portrait Prize, Fleurieu Art Prize and significantly the Kochi Muziris Biennale of Contemporary Art in India. He has worked on public art projects both nationally and in Birmingham, Vancouver, Mexico and throughout India. He is an affiliate artist UNESCO RIELA and in 2023 an affiliate researcher at University of Glasgow school of education. Daniel has delivered a TEDX talk ‘How art teaches you to approach the unfamiliar” in Ubud in May 2018.
Find out more about Daniel at:
Website: danielconnellartist.com
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Connell
TEDX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGLUkHJrgekn

Expressive portrait painting allows participants to explore portraiture from a non-realist tradition in which character and feeling come to the fore. Participants will work ‘Alla-Prima’ (in one sitting) during the first week, and then work on individual projects from source photos to create a single or multiple resolved work, over the following 5 weeks. Participants will be encouraged to work on large supports, to research artists, and experiment with various painting techniques and media. Learning will cover painting and material techniques, the structure of the face, the nature and ethics of portraiture and representation, considerations of paintings, composition and taking source photographs.

Materials required:
5 sticks willow charcoal medium
1 graphite pencil HB
1 charcoal pencil medium (optional)
White plastic eraser
30cm ruler (optional)
Masking tape
Container for water
Palette
Many cotton rags. (Must be cloth not paper )
You will need access to a camera/phone to create source images outside of class time. This will be discussed in week 1.
Acrylic paints (at least student quality is recommended)

Suggested paint colours:
warm red
cool red
warm blue
cool blue
yellow
orange
turquoise
magenta
green
white and black

Brushes:
Sizes 4, 8 & 12 flat or bright
3 inch hog hair brush

Supports:
For the first week, bring:
2 sheets of A2 or larger Oil Sketch paper.
Other supports will be discussed in the first week according to individual student projects (Supports can be stretched or un-stretched canvas, canvas board, MDF, and Marine-ply

Additional Materials
Oil paints can be used in addition and on top of acrylics. Suggested colours are: cadmium red, alizarin crimson, cadmium yellow medium, cadmium yellow light, ultramarine blue,titanium white, lamp black. Earth colours can also be included: yellow ochre, raw umber, burnt siena or colours similar of your choice.