Picasso Portrait

with guest presenter Liana Vargas

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

Create your own portrait in the style of Pablo Picasso.

DATE:  Sunday 26 February 2017
TIME:  10 am – 4.00 pm
FEE: $180

WHAT TO BRING:
A mirror or an enlarged photo or colour photocopy of yourself – or someone else if you cannot stand the idea of rendering yourself into a cubist masterpiece!
Plus, a sense of fun for your portrait.

Previous Splashout Workshops, presented by Liana, have focussed on Avant-garde artists such as; Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Gauguin, Tamara de Lempicka, Mark Rothko, and Kasimir Malevich.  There will be more to come . . .

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will begin with a short slideshow on some of Picasso’s most interesting cubist portraits.
A demonstration will be given on how to begin your portrait sketches (composition) and later, on how to begin with your transfer of your sketch to the canvas and how to begin the painting of it.

Elements from Picasso’s paintings can be incorporated into each participants painting, if they wish.
Liana will move around the studio assisting each participant throughout the workshop and at the end of the day all the paintings will be compiled for group feedback and photos.

ABOUT PABLO PICASSO (1881 – 1973)

Pablo Picasso, became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque and Rivera Diego) of Cubism.

Picasso was considered radical in his work. For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to – and paralleled the entire development of – modern art in the 20th century.

ABOUT LIANA VARGAS – Guest presenter

Liana started her creative career in the profession of Dance, with ‘Flamenco’ as her specialist genre.  She has studied and performed dance and art worldwide with notable achievements.  During her Flamenco years she danced in venues such as ‘The Royal Albert Hall’, ‘Covent Garden’ and ‘Saddlers Wells’.

On retiring from dance she switched her creative focus to another art form – ‘Drawing & Painting’.  Liana gained her Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA).  Shortly after graduating in 2014 Liana was offered ‘Artist in residence’ at the ‘Scuola Internationale de Grafica’in Venice, which of course she accepted.

Liana describes herself as an ‘abstract expressionist’ and can turn her hand to many methods and styles in a wide range of art forms.  Liana’s study and experience has breadth and innovation, which has led her to becoming a well known character within the South Australian art scene.  In addition to presenting workshops at various ‘Adelaide Hills’ locations, she also runs art classes for kids/teens at her home studio at Littlehampton.  In 2016 Liana joined Splashout Art Studios as one of the Workshop Programme ‘Guest Presenters’ !

HOW TO BOOK & PAY FOR WORKSHOP