Museum Saturday The Warmth of Humanity portrait workshop with artist Felicity Bell

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The Warmth of Humanity portrait workshop with Felicity Bell.

Join us for a workshop hosted by 2021 Portrait Award winner, Felicity Bell. This workshop will involve painting a portrait from a photograph and highlighting how to elicit warmth and ‘humanness’. Felicity will guide you through your painting and you will learn about Zorn palette and working with a limited palette.

Before photography, which has in no way erased the significance of portraiture, the only way to portray a person for posterity was to paint a portrait. Thus we have been blessed with a vast body of portraiture throughout the ages…and because of this the people we read about in history, as well as many who never made it into the history, are brought alive for us through the media of paint and pencil. Their personalities and looks speak to us through the centuries. Contemporary portraitists are doing the very same thing….now creating an image that is more than a photograph, that captures the essence of the sitter through the humanity of the artist herself which allows her to find the humanity of the sitter.

And that is what I strive to do…to speak to my viewers by depicting the warmth of humanity, with my brush. – Felicity Bell.

This is an oil painting workshop. You are required to bring a photograph of the person / portrait you would like to create. All materials for the day will be supplied. No previous training is required to join this workshop.

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A 30min lunch break at 13h00. Food can be ordered from the Museum Café’s special menu, only cash and Snapscan accepted. You are also welcome to bring your own lunchbox.

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Please note: no cancellations will be given a refund. 

Felicity Bell
Khulani: d. February 2021
Oil on Board
Image courtesy Rust-en-Vrede Gallery and the artist