Joel Mitnick teaches
Oil Painting: Portrait and Figure for Adults

Monday evening 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$120 per month or $35 per session
plus sharing of model fee
He can be contacted at
jmdi@mac.com
or at (201) 819-4847

joel mitnick

Joel Mitnick is a graduate of the High School of Music & Art in NYC, and graduated Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY with a BFA in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. Joel was an Adjunct Professor at Pratt and taught Graphic Design and Visual Communications for several years. While teaching he founded Joel Mitnick Design, Inc., a full-service graphic design firm located in Englewood, New Jersey. Joel has been honored with multiple design awards from the Art Directors Club as well as the AIGA, for his logo branding and creative work on Broadway shows and feature films.

Over the past ten years, in conjunction with running his successful business, he’s been actively pursuing his passion for oil painting, mostly Portraits and Still Life. Joel has pursued his passion for painting at the Art Students League in New York, where he has been the recipient of several “Red Dot” awards for excellence in Portraiture. He is also an active member of the Ridgewood Art Institute, New Jersey, where he received in a juried exhibition, The Hudson Valley Art Association Award for his still life painting. Joel’s Portrait and Still Life paintings have been selected multiple times as part of the FAV 15% (jury’s favorite 15% of the entries) in the Bold Brush Painting competitions. Additionally, Joel was honored to receive the Award of Excellence, Bronze Awards, Silver, and Finalist Award for his Portrait, Still Life and Landscape paintings from Camelback Gallery’s Juried Painting and Photography Competitions 2020 - 2021

In class students will learn to do “realistic” oil painting! Emphasis will be placed on composition, observing and understanding the light source, it’s color, color temperature, drawing, paint mixing & application, brushwork, and achieving correct tonal values with light and shadow to show form. We will apply these concepts and characteristics to capture the true essence of an individual in our Portraits and achieve accurate representation in our Still Life setups. Throughout the painting process, the student’s personal style and direction is always encouraged with individual critiques.