Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
The Basics of Sight-Size Technique
A course by Sarah Margaret Gibson , Classical Realist Painter
Joined March 2021
Joined March 2021
About the video: The Basics of Sight-Size Technique
Overview
“In this lesson, I will explain the basics of the sight-size technique: a brief history, how it works, what the benefits are, and how we will use it in this course.”
In this video lesson Sarah Margaret Gibson addresses the topic: The Basics of Sight-Size Technique, which is part of the Domestika online course: Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture. Learn the fundamentals of drawing and painting to create a realistic oil portrait using the alla prima technique.
Partial transcription of the video
“The Basics of Sight-Size Technique In this lesson, I will teach you the basics of sight-size technique. A brief history, how it works, what the benefits are and how we'll use it in this course. Sight-size is a technique that exploits a trick of optical perspective in order to enable you, no matter the size of your drawing or painting, to view it as the same size and directly next to your subject. It allows you to make fluid visual comparisons, almost as if you are working from a photo or a two-dimensional reference. This can be very useful as when working from three-dimensional references, ...”
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Course summary for: Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
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Areas
Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Oil Painting, Painting
Sarah Margaret Gibson
A course by Sarah Margaret Gibson
Sarah Margaret Gibson is a classical realist painter from Cincinnati, Ohio. Artistic expression has always been present in Sarah’s life; her maternal grandmother was a curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and her paternal grandmother was a watercolor painter. Sarah received her formal training in drawing and painting in Florence, Italy. She studied at the Angel Academy of Art, and later the Florence Academy of Art, from which she graduated in 2013. Sarah also taught at the Florence Academy’s intermediate studio as principal instructor for three years until leaving Italy.
In 2015, Sarah Margaret moved to the west coast of Scotland, alongside her husband and fellow artist, Lee Craigmile. Together they co-founded the Glasgow Academy of Fine Art in 2019, where Sarah is the academic director. The academy is an atelier-style school, teaching traditional methods of representational drawing and painting. Her work can be found in numerous private collections throughout the U.S. and UK, as well as in permanent exhibitions in New Salem Museum of Art and New Britain Museum of American Art.
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