Oil Painting for Beginners
From dark to light. Inorganic and organic 2
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: From dark to light. Inorganic and organic 2
Overview
“In this lesson you will see how I work an organic element, the tomato in the illustration.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: From dark to light. Inorganic and organic 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
“From dark to light. Inorganic and organic. Now we will start with the same concept, but with an organic element, such as tomato. I'll clean the palette. It's full of greens and blues. But I won't remove them entirely. When working with reds now, I want it to be somewhat clean. Now I will work on the tomato. I'm going to find a dark red. I'll add a little ultramarine blue and a little lemon yellow to get it dirty. So, we have a purple-red here, you see? We want it to have the right fluidity, and we will now talk about the tomato. Although we are tackling an organic element, if you look at it...”
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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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