Portrait Painting Workshop with Leeanna Chipana

+ Registration required (see link below). 

+ Educators can receive 6 hours of CPE credits for this program. For details contact our Education and Public Programs Manager at Juan@Contemporarysa.org

Learn about the possibilities of portrait painting in a workshop with exhibiting artist Leeanna Chipana. Following a presentation and demonstration, students will transfer an image of a Moche portrait vessel to a canvas. Using earth oil paint, participants will learn how to paint onto the canvas with an “old master” underpainting technique known as “grisaille” painting and finish their piece in full color.

Materials and light lunch will be provided.

About the Artist
Leeanna Chipana was born on Long Island, NY to an immigrant Quechuan-Peruvian father and American mother. She studied classical drawing at the Grand Central Atelier and received her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2017. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Long Island Museum, the Heckscher Museum, Southampton Arts Center, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery of SUNY Old Westbury, and the Wilkinson Gallery.