Name: Michelle Dunaway Workshop
Start: 2026-06-30T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-02T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Booth Art Academy

3-DAY PORTRAIT WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST
MICHELLE DUNAWAY
“Painting the Long Pose Portrait with Hands"
June 30 - July 2, 2026
Tuesday - Thursday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
$650 for Museum members / $725 for Non-members
Minimum 10 / Maximum 20 students
The Booth Art Academy (TRC Building)
1 North Gilmer Street
Cartersville, GA 30120
PH 770.387.1553
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
During this three day intensive workshop, Michelle will lecture, demonstrate her painting techniques, and provide one-on-one instruction as students paint from life. Artists will create one painting over the three days from a live model. The model will be posed costumed and within a setting with elegantly posed hands to give a variety of compositional choices for each artist. This is Alla Prima painting 2.0 ! Michelle will discuss how to create a more finished and resolved work, beyond a head study, similar to her gallery paintings. Everything from composition and color mixing of skin tones to more advanced techniques such as color temperature (which gives the visual illusion of the subject receding or coming forward in space) will be thoroughly covered. The beautiful intricacies of edges and brushwork will also be a main focus as a way to lead the eye through the composition, making punctuations in paint and resting spots for the eye. This tool can be observed in nature and portrayed in paint to evoke emotion and rhythms in the painting. Capturing a likeness, painting hands, and placing the sitter in an environment as a way to enhance the presence of the model will also be covered. Michelle will demonstrate in the morning, creating her own painting over the 3 days, as well as working one-on-one with each student in the afternoon to help them achieve their next level in painting and give students specific guidance to meet their individual artistic goals.
REGISTER ONLINE AT:
www.boothartacademy.org