Oil Painting Techniques: Still Life on Paper
Preserving Your Sketches
A course by Remi Cárdenas , Painter
About the video: Preserving Your Sketches
Overview
“I’ll explain the basic function of varnishing oil paint and how it works. I’ll show a simple way I keep my sketches so that they don't get damaged. ”
In this video lesson Remi Cárdenas addresses the topic: Preserving Your Sketches, 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
“Preserving Your Sketches If you won't frame your paintings, how do you keep them safe? The way I like to do it is using wax paper. It's important that it has to be wax paper or laminated paper because oil paint remains malleable and soft until it actually dries, and that takes a long time, so you don't wanna have a sheet of paper that is absorbent. Otherwise, it would draw oil from your painting as it dries. What the wax paper does is create a buffer so that the oil doesn't come out of your painting, and it just remains steady and it will dry perfectly. So, I just cut a sheet... the size of...”
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Course summary for: Oil Painting Techniques: Still Life on Paper
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting
Remi Cárdenas
A course by Remi Cárdenas
Born and raised in Mexico, Remi Cárdenas started his artistic career at the University of Veracruz, where he studied painting and graphic design. He quickly discovered his passion for traditional painting techniques, which led him to study in places like The Academy of Realist Arts in Toronto, Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington DC, the Arts Students League and at the former Grand Central Academy in New York.
He has done various commissioned work like scientific illustrations, book covers for Editorial Planeta publishing house, and large scale paintings for Museum of Natural History in Mexico City. In addition to painting, Remi also hosts regular drawing workshops.
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