Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
The Fundamentals of Drawing: Values
A course by Sarah Margaret Gibson , Classical Realist Painter
Joined March 2021
Joined March 2021
About the video: The Fundamentals of Drawing: Values
Overview
“Let us now go over the concept of values (tones ranging from dark to light in an image), and I’ll show you how to organise them with reference to a value scale in order to create a realistic drawing.”
In this video lesson Sarah Margaret Gibson addresses the topic: The Fundamentals of Drawing: Values, 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: Values In this lesson, we will go over the concept of values. Values are tones which range from dark to light in an image. I'll also show you how to organize them in reference to a value scale to create a realistic drawing. I'm going to start this lesson off by drawing out a value scale, which we can reference as we discuss the idea of value organization. I'm creating a long strip. I'm going to subdivide it into nine steps ranging from the light of the paper to as dark as my graphite can go. To create my value scale, I have the lightest value by default, which i...”
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Course summary for: Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
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Category
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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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