Finding Value Patterns, Mixing Flesh Tone Colors in Figurative Painting: An Intensive 5 Day Workshop with Peggy Nichols (Monday through Friday)

Learn how to paint the figure, focusing on principles of simple-to-complex. The goal of this workshop is for each student to become more efficient in identifying overall value patterns of the composition and to gain more confidence in mixing flesh tones. In this 5-day intensive figure painting workshop we will be covering drawing, value patterns, and flesh tone color mixing. The workshop will start with a figure drawing refresher followed by a demonstration on measuring, including Classical figure drawing techniques. Finding simple value patterns will be a warm-up for painting. We will be doing a series of small paintings using a three value step scale during the first two days, working from photo references of Old Masters or 19th Century figurative paintings. The final three days we will work on flesh tone color mixing using a Zorn palette and touching on a full color flesh tone palette, as time permits. There will be a set-up provided with a live model, with a set pose for all 3 days.

Peggy Nichols was born and raised in Southern California.  She received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute with continuing education at the University of Southern California/Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art and the Kline Academy. She has studied with contemporary figurative masters, such as Juliette Aristides, Rob Liberace, Steve Huston, Bill Perkins and Stephen Early. Nichols has taught figurative painting & drawing, portrait painting and advanced painting at Saddleback College / Emeritus Institute, in Mission Viejo, CA. She has taught beginning drawing, pastel painting and figurative painting at the New Mexico Art League. Nichols has taught private classes in drawing and painting, at her studio near Corrales. Her works have been exhibited through out the US. She is a recipient of the Ludwig Vogelstein Grant and the Vermont Art Center Residency Program. She has been a member of the California Art Club, the West Coast Pastel Society, Women Painters West and the American Society of Oil Painters, to name a few. In 2011, Nichols founded Studio C Gallery, in DTLA, which  focused primarily on the work of Women artists. www.studiocgalleryla.com  The gallery is now online only.