Description
PORTRAIT PAINTING WORKSHOP
Instructor: Jonathan Luczycki
SATURDAY, Feb 28, 2026 10am – 2pm
Come improve your portrait painting skills in this focused workshop where you’ll learn how to complete a portrait painting, using strong colors and values, in one sitting. Jonathan will show you how to achieve realism in a quick and effortless way, whether you’re a beginner or someone with painting experience looking to further enhance your skills.
We will use a transfer process to transfer our image onto an 8×10 inch panel (canvas is okay,
but a primed gesso panel will be easier to work on and strongly encouraged). Students are welcome to paint with oils, acrylics, or gouache for this class.
Please bring a printed 8×10 inch photograph of a face you would like to paint: a loved one, a selfie, a celebrity crush… just make sure the quality is high and has strong or interesting lighting. Print both a black and white version AND a colored version of the same photo.
If you don’t have a printer, FedEx is an inexpensive and fast place to print.
SUPPLY LIST
- PRINTED PHOTO (see description above).
- BRUSHES 3 or 4 smaller brushes. I like using flats, rounds and filberts for portrait painting. Sizes, 1, 2, 4 and 6, whatever you feel the most comfortable with.
- PAINTS You may work in oils, acrylics, or gouache. Paint colors: white, plus a warm and cool of each primary color. For ex., Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, Cad Yellow Medium, Cadmium Red (or Pyrrole Red), Alizarin Crimson (or Quinacridone Magenta, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue (or Cobalt Teal)
- SURFACE 8×10 inch or 9×12 inch gessoed panel. Canvas is okay, but a primed gesso panel will be easier to work on and strongly encouraged.
- MISC
- A dark colored pencil and/or ink pen for transferring our image
Artist Bio Jonathan Edward Luczycki (Lou-ziss-key) “I was always drawing in sketchbooks and on kitchen walls as a kid. In high school, I was the head illustrator for “The Bridge” newspaper at Portland Community College.” Jonathan attended, on a scholarship, Laguna College of Art & Design, one of the leading art schools teaching classical ways of painting. He received a degree in Illustration with a minor in Fine Art. He studied the early works of renowned landscape painters Edgar Payne, William Wendt, and John Carlson and quickly fell in love with painting outdoors – racing to capture the moving light on canvas like those artists before him. “My art education was a valuable tool, but nature has proven to be the best teacher out there.”
Jonathan has had several solo and group shows and his paintings are found in private collections worldwide. Jonathan currently resides, and works as a full-time painter, in Portland, OR, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. https://www.luczycki.com/
