Micah Ganske

Narrative Portraiture: Painting in Acrylic

Micah Ganske

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  • In-depth Instruction; over 314 mins
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Meet your instructor, Micah Ganske, and learn how to set up and get started.
Choose and apply your background paint, transfer your photo onto canvas, and sketch in the details you'll need before painting.
Ganske shows you how to create an underpainting with your acrylics, adding detail and defining various sections as you go.
Taking your work a step further, you'll mix and apply the midtones to your painting, resulting in a finished underpainting.
Your creativity will be sparked as you mix and apply colors to start the overpainting of your work, paying careful attention to laying in lights.
Ganske walks you through the process of building up your overpainting, laying in shadows and adding beautiful details.
Bring the background to life, continue to refine details and revisit areas to add complexity and dimension.
Put a polished glow on your painting as you add carefully placed highlights and opaque paint to add subtle changes to color and light.
 
 
8 Lessons
5  hrs 14  mins

Description

Join artist Micah Ganske and learn expert tips for painting portraits in acrylic. Whether you’re new to the medium or a veteran painter, you’ll build the skills to create compelling likenesses that tell a story about your subject. You’ll start with the basics of choosing a photo, transferring the image to canvas, and building a portrait with glazes. Ganske explains the many layers of acrylic in an intimate environment as he demonstrates how to build a painting from the underpainting to the finishing touches. With a crisp, over-the-shoulder view of Ganske’s work, you’ll gain thorough insight into how an accomplished painter moves and constructs an image.

Micah Ganske

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Ganske was always more interested in pursuing painting than catching waves. Since receiving his MFA from the Yale School of Art, his work has been featured in several high-profile exhibitions, including Miami's Art Basel. Ganske's work explores social, environmental and technological themes intended to ignite the imagination; "What is art for the viewer but a catalyst for inspiration?" asks the artist."I want to make work which inspires and engages the viewer in what I truly believe is important and what drives me."

Micah Ganske

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