Description 

A SCHRC Explore funded intensive portrait painting workshop with Associate Professor Ilene Sova from OCAD University. Sova will cover technical aspects of portrait painting, such as drawing the portrait for likeness and accuracy, underpainting strategies, using tonal values to build form, and mixing flesh tones while creating dynamic compositions. Additionally, the lessons will include introductions to inspiring contemporary artists who use the portrait tradition to communicate notions of social justice, identity, and decolonial histories.

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Instructor Bio 

Ilene Sova is an Associate professor in the Faculty of Art at Ontario College of Art and Design University with Bahamian ancestry whose practice include portrait painting, collage work, video and installation. She holds an Honours BFA in Painting from the University of Ottawa and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Windsor. With extensive solo and group exhibitions in Canada and abroad, Sova’s work has most notably been shown at the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and Mutuo Centro de Arte in Barcelona.