Portrait Painting with Michael Shane Neal

Filmed over two days, Michael paints the full arc of a traditional portrait: a live sitting with artist Jennifer Gennari, then completion from photo reference — covering materials, methodology, and techniques refined across more than 600 commissioned portraits.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: Meeting your sitter, understanding your materials, drawing, painting from life and photograph, and finishing your work. WHO IT'S FOR: Aspiring and professional artists who want to learn portrait painting in the tradition of the Old Masters.

The portraitist of Presidents, Justices, and Senators — whose painting of Congressman John Lewis hangs in the Smithsonian — opens his National Arts Club studio for his first complete online course.