Painting the Portrait
Cynthia Rowland, Instructor
cynthia.rowland@gmail.com
505-823-9320
Web site: Deloney Newkirk Galleries

Tuition: $210 (Plus model fee payable to instructor)

2010 Workshop: October 4 - 8

Portrait painting has been undergoing a renaissance in popularity. Thus, this course is designed to develop each student’s abilities in capturing the likeness, character and individuality of the subject by mastering the key elements of portraiture: Composition; draftsmanship; shapes and planes; line versus mass; value and color; and the individual complexion and facial colors.

About the instructor:

Cynthia Rowland graduated with a degree in Fine and Graphic Arts from Texas Tech University. Off to an exhilarating and jangling dozen years in New York, she worked with corporations and developed her own graphic design business. In 1993, Cynthia returned to New Mexico to pursue sculpture which has included several large scale commissions and competitions. For the last eight years, Cynthia’s consuming focus has been in oil painting. Her still-life and figurative work is represented by Deloney-Newkirk Gallery in Santa Fe and she also offers privately commissioned oil portraiture. For information call 823-9320.

Background and Training
College of Art and Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock – BA in Fine Arts
Silvermine Academy, New Canaan, CT
Charles Reid, New Canaan, CT
Peter Rubino, New York
David Leffel, Taos

Selected Public Commissions and Collections
Albuquerque Museum Foundation
Albuquerque Museum
Capitol Collection, Santa Fe
Albuquerque International Airport
Orlando Convention Center
United States Air Force
Bernalillo County
CIBA Corporation, Hawthorne, NY
MBI Corporation, Norwalk, CT

Selected Juried Exhibitions
Featured Artist – Cypress Gardens Art Exhibition
Featured Artist – New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Benefit
Invited Artist – Loveland Academy of Art
Birds in Art – Wausau, Wisconsin
Albuquerque Museum Miniatures Shows
Manitou Galleries, Santa Fe
Sedona Art Walk, Sedona, Arizona

Gallery Representation
Deloney-Newkirk Fine Art Galleries, Santa Fe
Other venues: Park City, UT; Jackson Hole, WY; Scottsdale & Sedona, AZ; Norman, OK.

Class materials list:

Tool box to carry supplies in
5 Filbert bristle brushes for general painting (#2, #4, #6, #8, #10)

1-3 Sable Brushes for finish work
When it comes to brushes, you have to pick good artist brushes from an art supply store; and they have to be brushes that you will really love and enjoy using as they will become as important as your fingers.

Painting Knife

Paint Medium to thin your oil paint for thin passages. You can pick either Maroger Medium which I use, and can obtain from www.oldmastersmaroger.com Or, you can use Liquin or Walnut Oil, both of which you can get at any good art store.

Roll of Viva Paper Towels

Glass Palette or a Wooden Palette that has been coated with linseed oil.
Under the glass palette, you need to have either wood or a piece of grey Canson paper that will act as your mid-tone value on a scale half way between black and white.

Paints: (Winton Oil Paints by Windsor & Newton are the least expensive and are appropriate for beginning students). For Portrait Painting, you will need a better Cadmium Red Light like Holbein or Old Holland Brand.
Flake White
Naples Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Venetian Red or Terra Rosa ( they are very similar)
Cadmium Yellow Deep
Cadmium Lemon
Cadmium Red Light
Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Blue
Burnt Umber
Raw Umber
Ivory Black
Permanent Alizarin Crimson

Masking Tape

4 12”x16” “Quality” Canvas Panels which you can obtain at Michael's Craft Stores