Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
Triangulating Values
A course by Sarah Margaret Gibson , Classical Realist Painter
Joined March 2021
Joined March 2021
About the video: Triangulating Values
Overview
“In this lesson, we will discuss how to establish your full value range at the beginning of the colour block-in process by identifying and laying down your darkest dark, lightest highlight, and a relevant mid-tone value in between.”
In this video lesson Sarah Margaret Gibson addresses the topic: Triangulating 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
“Triangulating Values In this lesson, we will discuss how to establish your full value range at the beginning of the color blocking process by identifying your lightest light, your darkest dark and a relevant mid-tone value somewhere in between. As I triangulate my values in the painting, it's important to understand what the absolute lightest light in the subject is. In this case, it's quite obvious because of the feather pattern. We have this very bright white patch of feathers at the top of the wing, which also is part of the area of the bird which is receiving quite a lot of light. I'm g...”
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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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