4th Oct Zorn Palette Portraits in Oils with Mark Fennell (from a head model)
DA3520
Description
Zorn palette portraits in oils with Mark Fennell (from a head model)
Saturday 4th October 2025
with Mark Fennell RBSA
10am – 4pm Attic Studio
All skill levels welcome
This day workshop will focus on the basics of portrait painting, working from a live model with a limited palette of three colours plus white, famously used by Swedish painter Anders Zorn to create beautiful skin tones.
It is a painting style best practiced in a quick wet-into-wet fashion where every brushstroke counts. The workshop aims to help artists develop their paint and brush handling toward achieving expressive, yet realistic portraits in a more immediate way.
Mark will demonstrate and guide you through his simple structured approach, breaking everything down into easy to follow steps that will cover everything from mixing all the colours you need from a limited colour palette to working tonally, blocking in larger elements and leaving the finer details for the final stages of the painting.
About Mark
Mark Fennell is a professional portrait painter who works to commission from his home studio in the hilltop village of Brill in Buckinghamshire. He works predominantly in oils, notable sitters include Antony Worrall Thompson, John Hood, Lord Mayor of Birmingham and singer - songwriter John Otway. His work has been selected for exhibition with The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and The Royal Society of British Artists at the Mall galleries London.
As well as portraiture, Mark also enjoys the challenge of painting outdoors, working at speed to capture the fleeting effects of light over landscape. Mark was elected member of The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 2007. He is also a member of Oxford Art Society and Buckinghamshire Art Society.
Awarded the Winsor and Newton painting prize for his self-portrait 'The diagnosis' at The Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition 2020. Selected for The Artist and Leisure Painter magazine competition at Patchings festival open art exhibition, 2014 and 2018. Awarded The Artists and Illustrators Artist of the Year West Design prize, People’s Choice Award 2012 for his portrait of 2nd world war veteran Len Nixey and also shortlisted for A&I Artist of the Year in 2019. Awarded The Clairefontaine Award at the 2021 The Artist and Leisure Painters Open exhibition.
His self-portrait was shortlisted out of nearly 10,000 entries for the Daily Mail ‘Not the Turner Prize’ and exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London in 2005. Featured on ITV’s ‘A Brush With Fame’ in 2005, portrait of Antony Worrall Thompson was chosen as his favourite. www.markfennell.co.uk
What to bring:
(this is a recommended list. If you are not sure, you can purchase products in the shop on the day.)
- One pre-primed and grounded canvases or board. (pre ground your canvas with a thin wash of acrylic or oil paint made up of burnt sienna lightened down to a light to mid tan with titanium white, must be dry on the day)
**Pegasus can prepare a 16” x 12” canvas for this course – please order a stretched traditional canvas upon booking. If you would like Pegasus Art to add the ground and prepare your canvas, this is an additional £2.50. Here is a link to the standard canvases that we sell:
https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/loxley-gold-stretched-canvas-traditional-standard.ir
- https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/loxley-clear-linen-stretched-canvases-transparent-primer.ir
- A selection of long handle short flat hog paint brushes in a range of sizes from 2 -12, also a small round size 1 synthetic or hog brush.
https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/da-vinci-series-5123-maestro-2-bright-short-flat-brushes-hog-bristle.ir
- Palette knives – R&M sizes 1 and 5 or similar
https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/rgm-progrip-palette-knife-painting-knives-20-shapes-and-sizes.ir
- Zest-It oil paint dilutant or similar low odour thinners and linseed oil or
https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/zest-it-oil-paint-dilutant-brush-cleaner-eco-solvent.ir
- A dipper/pot to hold the thinners.
https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/metal-twin-dipper-with-lids-seal.ir
- Good size flat mixing palette (no plates or paper palettes please)
https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/cappelletto-walnut-palette-30x40cm-rectangle.ir
- Oil colours as follows - titanium white, yellow ochre, cadmium red light (cadmium red will suffice) and ivory black. We sell a wide range of oils at Pegasus Art, including starter sets.
- A good size jar for white spirit or low odour thinners for oil painters (solvents must be taken home with you and cannot be disposed of at Pegasus Art)
-Rags or kitchen rolls to clean brushes.
- Please ensure you bring a carrier for taking home your wet painting if painting in oils.
- Please bring your own packed lunch, water and snacks with you. Tea & coffee available in the studio.
All workshop attendees receive an extra 5% off art materials from our extensive shop next to Studio One. The shop is open from 9am, so please do come before the workshop to purchase what you need.
Please take care to check our Terms & Conditions in relation to our cancellation policy:
https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/terms-and-conditions.irs#workshopterms
Delivery
Delivery
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*except 225cm, 250cm, 275cm,300cm stretcher bars, rolls of canvas, large easels.
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Click and Collect Available
Click and collect is available at our Stroud shop. Please await our confirmation email before collecting. Proof of order required to pick up goods.
See full delivery information and pricing here.
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