Rodney Kingston was on Portrait and landscape artist of the year, and I went to a workshop with him at the Woodley and Early Arts Group to have him teach his method for painting portraits in oils. I first met him at the Woodley and Early arts group demo evening using Nitram liquid charcoal.
I have always been a water based medium artist so it will be of no surprise I chose water based oils for my portrait. Rodney uses, yellow ochre, cadmium red, ultramarine Blue, raw umber, and titanium white, so I followed suit using Cobra water soluble oils.
Our morning was spent mapping out our portraits using Rodney’s reference materials. Mapping out the face with straight lines and big shapes. Moving quickly into the lunch break by adding shadows and our lightest tone.
Following lunch, we move onto develop mid-tones and because of the work we had done in the morning the afternoon sailed by. My first efforts were very yellow, and I adjusted the colour with some white and cad red.
I have to say that Rodney’s method was both enjoyable and also in my case, very profitable and I produced a very good likeness of the reference material.
I’m hoping the Woodley and Earley Arts Group will invite Rodney back to do landscape, possibly with liquid charcoal!
