Wende Caporale: "Painting From Life" Art Instruction Video/DVD (Pastels & Oils)

Wende Caporale: "Painting From Life" Art Instruction Video (Pastels & Oils)

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Learn to paint from life with a portrait master...

Wende Caporale is a master of the portrait. She is known and respected nationwide for her insights with people and skills with oil and pastel. Wende understands the subtleties, the techniques and the challenges. She knows what makes a good portrait. Most of all, she knows how to use color to bring out character, depth and understanding. Wende is an outstanding teacher; clarifying difficult concepts and simplifying the most difficult of ideas. She makes learning the intricacies of great portraiture a joy! (Wende is also Daniel Greene's wife! Some talented couple!)

Now you can gain much of the inspiration and technical knowledge Wende has to offer by taking her workshop in the comfort of your own home on video or DVD. Filmed in front of a live workshop audience, this 130 minute video explores:

Working with models

Lighting, positioning, and using photography

A drawing demonstration

Oil color mixes for portraiture

Explanation of values and contrasts

Answers to questions about materials

and many other critical topics.

Wende teaches here in both Pastels and Oils (primarily Pastels.)

An added advantage: one of the wonderful aspects of having the workshop on video is that you can play and re-play those parts that are especially important to you or ideas that require further study. It’s like having your own portrait clinic available to you whenever you want!

Wende Caporale, PSA is an award-winning artist with an emphasis on portraits of children and women. Her work has been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, American Artist, including their recent Portrait Highlights, and Pastel International, who published her first book in 2001, Painting Children’s Portraits in Pastel.
Wende is a Master Pastelist of the PSA, as well as a noted speaker & demonstrator for the International Association Of Pastel Societies and The Portrait Society of America.

Available on VHS or DVD.