Oil Painting for Beginners
The stained. Back to front 2
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: The stained. Back to front 2
Overview
“At this stage I will explain the "From back to front" methodology, widely used in landscape painting.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: The stained. Back to front 2, 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
“The painting from back to front Before starting with this back-to-front landscape methodology, Let's put Liquin or the medium you have on the palette. Now we will take our soft brush, the smallest we have of the two, and we will work on our landscape. It is very important that you understand that, in this methodology, we work back to front and top to bottom. What comes first in this landscape? If we work from back to front and from top to bottom: the sky. Therefore, we will look for a blue that resembles the light blue sky. Mix the colors well so that they don’t... Don’t do this, or it will...”
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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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