This is an eight-week class, designed for students of all levels. Pastel and watercolor are incredible mediums to improve understanding of using clean color. Due to the fact that you are working with pastel sticks you are forced to make creative decisions to interpret skin tones as blues, greens, reds etc… This experience will help you to improve color in any medium you are usually working in. Also these are great mediums for quick studies and working on toned surfaces. We will work on a male and female model from photo references.
Part One: First portrait assignment in pastels.
There will be a brief lecture on color theory and use of color in skin tones. We will discuss variety of procedures using pastel accompanied by demonstrations on color mixing.
Homework: Portrait lay-in .
Part Two: First portrait assignment in pastels.
We will discuss working on volume and details.
Homework: Working on details.
Part Three: First portrait assignment in pastels.
We will discuss working on finishing details. There will be a demonstration finishing first portrait assignment.
Homework: Finish first portrait assignment.
Part Four: Second portrait assignment in watercolor.
There will be a demonstration on laying in second portrait using different toned paper.
Homework: Portrait lay-in.
Part Five: Second portrait assignment in watercolor.
We will discuss working on details. There will be a demonstration on volume and details.
Homework: Work on details.
Part Six: Second portrait assignment in watercolor.
Demonstration and discussion on finishing details of the portrait in second assignment.
Homework: Finish portrait.
Part Seven: Second portrait assignment in watercolor.
We will discuss working on details. There will be a demonstration on volume and details.
Homework: Work on details.
Part Eight: Second portrait assignment in watercolor.
We will discuss working on details. There will be a demonstration on volume and details.
Homework: Work on details.
A virtual room link will be sent to you up to 24 hours prior to your class start date.
Complimentary 10-day access to each recorded session. Recordings are emailed the day after each live session.
Pastels: preferably Sennelier soft pastels half sticks set, but any professional pastel set will also work.
Pastel paper 12″x16″
Watercolor: any professional brand
Watercolor paper 12″x16″
Watercolor brushes: your preferred brushes
This online course requires the use of the Zoom program. You will need a computer, tablet or smartphone (with camera preferred) and internet. To download the program, click on the following link: zoom.us/download.
A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you up to 24 hours prior to your class start date. If you need help with Zoom, please let us know and we will schedule a short tutorial for you prior to your class.
Leon Okun was born on February 6, 1980 in a small town in Siberia, Russia. In 1993 Leon’s family immigrated to San Diego. His interest in figurative art developed while taking art classes at Mesa Community College, where he was given complete freedom of exploration. This freedom led him to a profound interest in figurative drawing and propelled Leon to pursue the kind of program that would satisfy his passion for fine art.
Leon’s educational art journey began at Watts Atelier (a small private art school with an emphasis on the traditional fine art), where he studied for two and a half years. There he met Ron Lemen, an art instructor at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. To this day, Leon gives Ron Lemen credit for inspiring him to believe in himself and to set the highest possible standards for personal artwork.
In 2003, Leon returned to Russia to explore Russian art schools and museums. Painters like I. E. Repin, V. Serov, and V. Surikov captured his interest and helped him develop the best possible vision any artist can have: To become a serious painter.
It was then, in 2003, that Leon decided to apply to the Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Repin Academy of Arts is a two hundred and fifty-seven year old historic institution. It has been the birthplace of the most famous Russian painters. It was clear to Leon that if he wanted for himself the best art education in the world, than it would have to be the Repin Academy of Arts.
After two years of intense preparation Leon got accepted to the Academy, where he studied for six years and received both a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Art and a Masters Degrees in Fine Arts.
In 2011, Leon returned to San Diego and immersed himself into teaching, sharing with his students the wonderful education he had received at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.
Successful in his own right as a Artist and as a Teacher, Leon now inspires his students to search our their dreams and to strive to achieve their own personal best.
Leon is a member of the California Art Club, the American Portrait Society, the American Impressionist society, and the Plein Air Painters of San Diego.
Leon has participated in and won numerous art competitions in San Diego and throughout Southern California. His style of painting is based on the traditional European classical art, and color pallet that so many Russian painters are famous for.
Most recently Leon had several successful exhibitions that drew a great deal of interest in the art community.
Course Changes or Cancellations
LAAFA reserves the right to cancel any class/workshop, limit workshop size, change class/workshop times or substitute instructors for those listed in the schedule.
If a class/workshop is cancelled; students may transfer to another class/workshop, use credit on artschoolvideos.com, keep credit on file or be issued a full refund.
Refunds and Transfers
All online classes and workshops are non-refundable.
Absences
There are no make-ups available for online courses. Students are emailed a 10-day access to each recorded session, made available the next day after the live session.
Information
Campus Address
16926 Saticoy Street
Van Nuys, CA 91406
(818) 708-9232
contactus@laafa.edu
Business Hours
Phone Hours: Mon-Fri, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Main Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
