Mastering Beautiful Portrait Paintings in Oil with Matt Miller

If you've ever wanted to learn to paint portraits or need to improve your oil paint portraiture skills, don't miss this class. In this two-day hands-on workshop, Copley Society Master Artist Matt Miller covers how to compose, light, and paint a portrait from life from start to finish in a direct style of painting. Matt will remove the terror of painting a person, show you how to select the correct colors, how to define geometry and space, and to improve your skills in "sculpting" a finished portrait. Matt teaches a solvent-free style of painting so no smelly and toxic mineral spirits will be used. Matt will start with a short class, and demonstration on day one and will continue the demonstration on day two to show you how to take the painting further towards finish.

About the Instructor: Over the past two decades Matt Miller has returned from corporate life to representational art, his first passion. At an early age Matt was enthralled by the works of Rembrandt van Rijn and, not surprisingly, during his development as an artist his most influential teachers and mentors were David A. Leffel and Sherrie McGraw. Under their tutelage, Matt has expanded his understanding of the logic and language of painting and human perception, and he uses this knowledge to explore the interrelationship of abstract concept, composition, and paint application, and how they drive the creation of representational fine art.

Matt paints in a direct style with no underpainting or layering. This direct application of paint allows him to see and paint to the finished work throughout the development of any given painting. He prefers to paint from life, on board, with a limited but powerful palette. Matt has been juried into numerous national shows and exhibitions, is a Copley Master Artist, a co-founder and teacher at the online academy Epiphany Fine Art, and currently paints and teaches out of his studio in Norton, Massachusetts. 

Materials List: Matt Miller Supplies List.pdf