About the Workshop

Realism is an art style that focuses on representing the subject truthfully, without adding fictitious elements or features. The Realist Movement began in France, in the 1850s, when Realist painters rejected the idea of Romanticism, which was widely prevalent in art and literature back then. The movement picked up when artists like Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot used common labourers and their everyday surroundings. Realism is a vast concept and has its presence in various fields like literature, cinema and theatre.

In this workshop you will, this workshop will introduce you to the world of portraits and its techniques, learn to use charcoal and charred sticks of wood to make finished portraits which look as realistic as possible, understand the how the art utilizes a mixture of charcoal and graphite to create hyper-realistic portraits, create will create the art work which will closely resemble a high-resolution photograph as you incorporate intricate detailing to breathe life into the paintings