Course Description: Oil Painting: Animal Portrait

Discover the fundamental steps necessary to paint realistic animal portraits using classical oil painting techniques. This course will introduce students to best practices for oil painting and provide fundamental drawing skills needed to capture the "likeness" and realistically recreate a 3-dimensional form on canvas.

Course Details: (seats remaining)

Schedule:

Every week on Tuesday, starting on 05/07/24 and ending on 05/28/24

Times:

05:00pm-08:00pm

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Price:

Class Price : $149.00

Additional Course Information

Required Materials: Students will bring one canvas to the fourth class; instructor will provide information during the first class. All other supplies provided.

Instructors

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Mike Wise

Biography: Michael Wise was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. While he grew up in an urban environment, Mike gravitated to the outdoors, camping in the Adirondacks and scuba diving along the New England coastline. He spent endless hours as a kid sketching the various objects from nature he collected on his adventures. His passion for wildlife led him to study zoology at the University of Montana. He combined his degree in science with studies in illustration and painting, earning a B.S. in Biological / PreMedical Illustration at Iowa State University. His career path took a drastic turn after a rock-climbing injury led him to seek treatment with a chiropractic. This experience had a profound impact on him, and he enrolled Northwestern Health Science University earing a Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 1995. In recent years he returned to his art, spending much of his spare time plein air painting around Central Oregon. He has been the president of Plein Air Paintings of Oregon and has taught landscape painting classes for the DYI Cave and Sagebrushers in Bend, Oregon. As a painter his interests lie in creating lush landscapes, draped in dramatic light. He uses sculptural passages of paint to create blocks of paint that take on the shapes of rocks, trees and clouds. His work leans towards representational impressionism placed upon abstracted backgrounds. The end result is a painting that is alive, rich in color and flowing with movement. His goal is to have the viewer experience the sensation of stepping into the scene themselves. He currently shows his paintings at Hood Avenue Gallery in Sisters, Oregon

Facility Detail

COCC Boyle Education Center

BEC 0152

2600 NW College Way

Bend, OR 97703

Cancellation Policy

Students must cancel by contacting our office via phone: (541) 383-7270 or email: ceinfo@cocc.edu. Cancellations received 5 days prior to the start of the class will receive a full refund. Full refunds are also issued for classes cancelled by COCC. Refunds will be issued back to your card or in the form of a check and mailed within two weeks of the cancellation date if paid by check or cash. Failure to participate in a course or program does not result in a refund. Exceptions to the general refund policy are noted in the course descriptions on our website and in the printed schedule. If you have any questions, please call us at (541) 383-7270.