Full Course Classical Art Training | Portrait | Composition, Drawing, Painting, Sight Size Method

Portrait Painting with the Model (in sight size) - PAINTING THE PORTRAIT - with Moses Hamborg

Join us for a full portrait painting from life course!

We will cover: studio set up, composition, working with a model, painting from life, how to do a transfer drawing, how to paint using a limited palette, essential principles of atelier art training and practices.

Teaching this course is Moses Hamborg, a portrait painter based in Los Angeles, California and Dakar, Senegal. Born and raised in Southern California he moved to Italy to study drawing and painting. After graduating from the Florence Academy of Art he was awarded the Artist in Residence position. Following his residency he took on portrait commissions in Europe and the US while he furthered his training at Charles H. Cecil Studios.

Moses has work in the permanent collections of the New Salem Museum of Art, USA and the Manifattura Tabacchi, Italy. Moses was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America in 2019 and exhibited in the BP Portrait Award 2020 at the National Portrait Gallery, London. In 2021, after spending time painting in Freetown, Sierra Leone, he was accepted into Kehinde Wiley's artist residency, Black Rock Senegal and exhibited with the 14th DAK'ART Biennale in 2022.

We will learn everything about portrait painting in an academic style as taught in the classical atelier system. We will cover how to set up your studio, canvas, how to make a transfer drawing and how to paint a portrait from first marks to finished masterpiece.

Moses Hamborg is an incredible oil painter and it was so fun to film this with him. Stay tuned for the rest of the course! :)

If you want to see more of Moses' work you can find him on instagram -@moseshamborg and his website - https://www.moseshamborg.com/

The Classical Art School Online youtube page is run by @mimy_paints (Emily) on instagram.

Thanks for watching!