Oil Painting Techniques: Still Life on Paper

Overview

“Now, I’ll show you the commonly referred ‘colour wheel’ and look at the pigments that closely resemble it. I will teach you how to create a basic palette. ”

In this video lesson Remi Cárdenas addresses the topic: Colour of the Spectrum, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oil Painting Techniques: Still Life on Paper . Discover the colorful world of oil paint by learning essential techniques on a practical medium.

Partial transcription of the video

“Colour of the Spectrum Now let's talk about color. We see color because of light. Here I have a diagram with the visible spectrum. That's the spectrum we can see. Beyond red, there's infrared, and beyond violet, there's ultraviolet. That's part of the spectrum we can't see. Color is just light, which reflects on an object, bounces into our eye, and then our eye detects it as color. As you can see, it's a spectrum. We randomly pointed that for 460 terahertz, it's red, 510 is orange, 525 yellow, etcetera, but that's just for us to understand color, because color is a spectrum, like I said, so...”

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Course summary for: Oil Painting Techniques: Still Life on Paper

• Level: Beginner
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• 2153 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 18m)

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting