Oil Painting for Beginners
From dark to light. Inorganic and organic 3
A course by Ale Casanova , Painter and Teacher
About the video: From dark to light. Inorganic and organic 3
Overview
“With the inorganic and organic elements finished, from dark to light, now I will return to blue and show you how I work all that part of the background.”
In this video lesson Ale Casanova addresses the topic: From dark to light. Inorganic and organic 3, 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. I'll clean the palette. Now we will return to our idea of back to front, which we have skipped to explain the idea of dark to light, another one of the most common methods. Now I will return to the background. In this case, I’ll return to the floor, where our elements are lying, which is actually an ultramarine blue. Then we will work on this entire part, we will modify some mistakes that we may have in our drawing, and we will start on the shadows that are cast by the tomato on the plate. We’ll take ultramarine blue, and don't worry about what you...”
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Course summary for: Oil Painting for Beginners
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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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