Zoom Portraits

with Annie Kierans

Zoom Portraits
with Annie Kierans
Thursday, April 29 | 6pm – 9pm
Free | supplies not included
Maximum 12 participants (pre-registration required)

Parameters can be a very helpful tool in art-making – limitations beget creativity. Amidst social distancing measures, live video chat platforms have been embraced across the world as a platform through which to connect with others. By using Zoom as a portal for live portraiture, we resist the typical pace and function of digital spaces made for call and response. Instead, we will take our time to observe each other through the screen with no need for the microphones. Join Dawson City-based visual artist Annie Kierans for this timely exercise!

This workshop will take place online via Zoom. Once you have registered, you will receive a link to join the event.

Materials
Use your own supplies for this free online workshop. Annie will be working with oil paint, however participants may also use acrylic. The instructor has provided the following suggested guidelines:

• Paint hues: at minimum, participants should have both a warm and cool/light and dark of each of the primaries (red, yellow, and blue) plus white. See the chart below for some hue suggestions.

• Mediums are up to the painter – some basics are listed below but there are many more – e.g. walnut oil, poppy oil, safflower oil.

• A palette for mixing colours

• A small- to medium-sized primed painting surface

• Easel/other type of canvas support

Suggestions

Oil/Acrylic paint

• Titanium white

• Cadmium yellow (light)/ Lemon yellow

• Cadmium yellow (deep)

• Cadmium red

• Alizarin crimson/ Quinacridone magenta

• Cobalt/ ultramarine blue

• Pthalo/ Prussian blue

Mediums

• Linseed oil/turpentine if using oil, water and a retardant for acrylic

Paintbrushes

• A variety

Easel (optional)

Promo photo by Devon Berquist