Oil Painting for Beginners
Materials
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: Materials
Overview
“In this lesson you will see what oil is made of and the oil colors that you will need for this course. In addition, I will briefly analyze the different types of brushes that are on the market and those that you will need to work on the exercises and the final project.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oil Painting for Beginners. Get started with the endless possibilities this painting technique offers and create a composition from start to finish.
Partial transcription of the video
“Materials In this lesson I will explain what an oil paint is made of, we will see the colors that we will use for our work, we will briefly see the brushes that exist on the market, what types of brushes there are to work with oil, and which ones we will use for the exercises and the final project. Paints are made up of a binder and additives. In oil the main binder is linseed oil. We can add different additives, which can be beeswax or alkyd resins. Dryers, which can be cobalt, can be silver or magnesium. Each brand will use a different binder. What we do is add pigments to this binder, th...”
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Course summary for: Oil Painting for Beginners
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting
Ale Casanova
A course by Ale Casanova
Alejandro Casanova was born in Valencia, Spain in 1981. After studying Fine Art at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, he moved to Tenerife where he completed his doctorate. He has received various national and European research grants as well as others for the plastic arts.
His work focuses on the human body and portraiture as a window into the creation of plastic art. He also composes oil paintings, although watercolor is his preferred medium as it allows him to work swiftly and effectively using transparency and the richness of the color spectrum to create figurative pieces. His work has been exhibited in different Spanish as well as other European cities and he has also given numerous workshops across Spain.
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