Oil Painting for Beginners
Tonal value 1
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: Tonal value 1
Overview
“Here we are going to stain our hands, but before starting with the color I am going to introduce an intermediate step and very necessary as well as satisfactory. You will learn what tonal value or brightness is by doing a small exercise in black and white on an inspiring motif that we have found on a walk, in a bar or in our own home.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: Tonal value 1, 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
“Tonal value Now we'll get our hands dirty, but before diving into color, we will use black and white. We will define brightness and tonal value, and then we will do a black-and-white exercise based on an inspiring image that you have found on a walk, at a café, or at home. Tonal value is a basic characteristic of color, and it’s a color's ability to reflect light. This tonal value or brightness is expressed in grayscale, ranging from white to black. Each color has a certain brightness or tonal value. Now we are going to work on a black and white photo. You can take this picture on an inspir...”
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Course summary for: Oil Painting for Beginners
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Category
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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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