Portraiture: People and Pets

Portraiture: People and Pets with Jeffrey Gatrall

Five Saturdays, January 11 - February 8, 10am to 1pm

Cost: $200-$275 sliding scale*, plus materials

Learn to paint portraits in acrylics from a photograph! If you have a photo of a favorite person (or a favorite pet!) that you would like to turn into a painting, this class will show you several methods for achieving that. Whether you photo is a print, or a file on your phone, all the methods for using photos as reference for a painting will be discussed. The first class will center around how to go about choosing a good photo to work from, and how to get the image onto the canvas, panel, or paper. If you already have a particular photo you would like to use, please bring it to class. If you would like help choosing a photo, please bring all of your likely candidates with you. The remaining weeks will be for actually doing the painting.

For questions or to register, please email programs@nohoarts.org. If registering, please include your full name, mailing address, and phone number. Payment may be made in advance via PayPal here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ncfa33hawley or by check to “NCFA” mailed to the Northampton Center for the Arts, PO Box 366, Northampton MA 01061.

*Payments on the upper end of the sliding scale help support our ongoing commitment to accessibility and sliding scale models. If financial assistance is needed, participants may apply for Community Fund support: https://www.nohoarts.org/community-fund

Jeffrey Gatrall received his BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design, and spent his senior year abroad in Rome as part of the school’s European Honors Program. The following year he completed the Scottish Post Diploma at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, where he studied painting under Alberto Morrocco, and print making under Sheila Macfarlane. After deciding to enter the realm of commercial art, he had a thirty-five year career, primarily in animation, where he worked for Warner Bros., Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Universal, and Atari, among others. For the last fifteen years Jeffrey has been devoting his time to painting. He participated in NCFA’s En Plein Air Festival during the time the Center had no physical location, and he’s shown work at Historic Northampton. Jeffrey maintains a studio in Easthampton.