Capture Emotion, Not Just Likeness

Learn how to create portraits that communicate feeling, personality, and presence.

Step-by-Step Instruction

Clear guidance that builds both creative confidence and technical skill.

Develop Your Expressive Style

Make intentional artistic choices and create portraits that feel alive and personal

About the course

Expressive Portraits shows you how to move past drawing likeness and start creating portraits filled with emotion, personality, and life. Through step-by-step instruction, you’ll learn the creative and technical skills needed to make portraits that genuinely connect with the viewer

Meet Your Instructor

Patt Scrivener is an artist and educator focused on expressive, emotionally driven portraiture. Through her work, she explores presence, personality, and the subtle choices that bring a face to life beyond simple likeness. With years of experience creating and teaching art, Patt is passionate about helping artists move past stiffness and self-doubt and into more confident, intentional expression. Her teaching emphasizes clarity, observation, and creative decision-making, making complex ideas accessible and encouraging students to develop their own artistic voice.

Curriculum

1 Chapter · 8 Lessons

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    Module 1

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      1.1 Blind Contour Drawing

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      1.2 Expressive Background - Layer 1

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      1.3 Picking Your Palette

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      1.4 Expressive Colour Backgrounds

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      1.5 Portrait 2 -Live Zoom Demo

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      1.6 Portrait 2 Continued

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      1.7 Notanizer Photo Reference Painting Demo

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      Photo Reference

Take the next step in your portrait practice.

👉 Join Expressive Portraits and learn to capture emotion, not just likeness!

$49.00

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