Techniques w/ Tanvi Pathare - Painting Fabric Pt. 1

An installment in the Technique related content featured on The FAA Collective Patreon

Dear Patrons,

Thank you for your continued support! This week on The FAA Collective Patreon we would like to present you with the first video in an upcoming series featuring Principal Instructor at The Florence Academy of Art and Painter Tanvi Pathare. The series will explore Pathare’s process, technique, and vision during the creation of a recent painting Her ascent. This week’s segment follows Tanvi Pathare in her amazing studio in Porta Romana, Florence, Italy as she paints the drapery of the artwork. 

Focusing on the technique of painting fabric from life under natural light, Tanvi explains her process from start to finish including decision making on time management, mixing the palette, and applying paint to create the impression of the multilayered fabrics. The drapery on the figure is made from two layers, a bold orange and a sheer lace, enriched by an elegant pattern. In order to create this effect in paint we are shown not only how Pathare applies the paint, but learn how intentional almost every step of the process is. In this video we become privy to incredible insight into the smallest of particulars behind her approach of painting this detailed fabric, as well as why she used it compositionally. The meticulous pattern application is visually engaging and expresses Pathare’s aim to “take as much beauty from reality as much as possible.”

We hope you thoroughly enjoy this segment focusing on painting the drapery in Her ascent, and hope you look forward to the rest of the series! 

Her Ascent 190cm x 100cm, oil on linen. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9j8SZzqF_2/

Tanvi Pathare, born in Mumbai, India, showed a growing interest in the fine arts since a very early age. She graduated with honors from the prestigious Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where she received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting. Following the allure of the realistic tradition of painting from nature, Tanvi attended The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy, graduating from the Painting Program in 2012. During her second year, she won the award for Best Figure Painting in the Intermediate Program, and in her final year, she was awarded Honorable Mention for Exceptional Overall Performance in Advanced Painting. She is recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for Painting (2012), and a finalist in the Figurative Category of the ARC International Salon 2012-2013. Tanvi began teaching at The Florence Academy of Art as a student, and is presently a principal instructor in the Intermediate and Advanced Painting programs at The Florence Academy of Art. She works privately in Florence.

View more of Tanvi’s work:

www.tanvipathare.com

https://www.instagram.com/tanvipathareart/

https://www.florenceacademyofart.com/alumni_gallery/tanvi-pathare/