Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
The Fundamentals of Drawing: Construct 1
A course by Sarah Margaret Gibson , Classical Realist Painter
Joined March 2021
Joined March 2021
About the video: The Fundamentals of Drawing: Construct 1
Overview
“Now you will learn how to measure in sight-size, how to simplify the outline of your subject, and how to capture gesture and proportion in your drawing.”
In this video lesson Sarah Margaret Gibson addresses the topic: The Fundamentals of Drawing: Construct 1, 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 Fundamentals of Drawing: Construct In this lesson, you'll learn how to measure in sight-size, simplify the outline of your subject and capture gesture and proportion in your drawing. Once you've chosen the position of your easel and the size that the drawing is going to be, the next step is to make sure that the drawing is at the right height in order to center the image on the page. You can do this by adjusting the height of your easel until we have a pleasing negative space above the bird, relative to below. I like to have a little bit more negative space below the bird than above. Th...”
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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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