Portraiture Features & Form with Cara Bain

Gamblin Oil Paints

Location:

Zoom

Cost:

FREE per person

Duration:

1h 30min

About This Experience

Join Cara Bain to learn the art of capturing vivid likeness in portraiture. In this demo, Cara will guide you through finding the right proportions, subtle shapes and forms and choosing which details to include or leave out, ensuring your portrait feels accurate and expressive.

Cara will emphasize the importance of underpainting as a foundation for a strong portrait, and introduce the techniques of mixing and applying skin tones to achieve depth and realism. This demo is perfect for artists of all levels, offering invaluable insights into creating lifelike portraits with balance and precision.

Materials

Gamblin Artist's Oil Paints:  Titanium White, Yellow Ochre,  Cadmium Red Light,  Alizarin Crimson,  Ultramarine Blue,  Transparent Earth Red (or Burnt Sienna),  Burnt Umber

Gamblin Refined Linseed Oil 

Gamblin Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirit

Opus Denman Brushes: Round #2, Flat #8,  Angled ¼",  ½"

Opus Fortissimo Brushes: Round 6-10

Metal Palette Knife 

Glass Palette

Canvas or Wood Panel: Prepared with three coats of white gesso

Gesso

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About Your Host

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Cara Bain is a visual artist and art educator born and raised in Vancouver, BC. She creates oil paintings that combine traditional techniques with a flair for contemporary creativity. She’s known for her figurative and landscape paintings, combining natural expressiveness with unique textures of copper leaf patina. Cara has been an art instructor since 2016, teaching adults, teens and children to build a solid skill foundation and express their creative ideas. Cara holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communication and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions over her 20 years of experience as an artist.

Website: carabain.ca
Instagram: @cara.bain
Facebook: @art.by.cara.bain
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