Realistic Oil Painting: Explore Your Artistic Spirit

Overview

“It's always important to start with the simple and basic. In this class, we will develop together the first practical painting exercises, training on creating gradients and color transitions.”

In this video lesson Pati Rigon addresses the topic: First exercises: gradients, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Oil Painting: Explore Your Artistic Spirit. Explore the materials and techniques to paint a realistic oil painting from scratch that conveys your personality.

Partial transcription of the video

“First exercises: gradients Now that you know a little more about paints, I'll show you how to do the dilution. I will use, in this case, turpentine and linseed oil in equal measures. Here I'm putting it in the eye, but try to search, more or less, a fifty-fifty balance between each of the two. Here you can see that the ink is still very creamy, more or less close to how she got out of the tube and as we add turpentine and linseed, everything starts to get more fluid, more liquid. As here I'm diluting opposite colors, or I should clean this brush, which is already smeared with black paint be...”

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Course summary for: Realistic Oil Painting: Explore Your Artistic Spirit

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (136)
• 2955 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 36m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting