Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
The Fundamentals of Drawing: Construct 2
A course by Sarah Margaret Gibson , Classical Realist Painter
Joined March 2021
Joined March 2021
About the video: The Fundamentals of Drawing: Construct 2
Overview
“I'm now going to find the corresponding width measurements for all of the heights in the same way. Once this is done, I'm going to take a step back to find a way to block in the outline.”
In this video lesson Sarah Margaret Gibson addresses the topic: The Fundamentals of Drawing: Construct 2, 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 You can take a second vertical alignment as you're placing these widths as well. I'm looking at the relationship of the back of the neck with the foot on the right and how the start of the leg where it's coming off of the body should be very close to being aligned with that point. Now that I've found the horizontal point for each of the height measurements that I've made, the first thing I like to do is take those abstract coordinates, which are currently a cross made from a vertical and a horizontal line, and I'm going to approximate the angle break t...”
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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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