Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
Blocking in the Colours of the Bird 1
A course by Sarah Margaret Gibson , Classical Realist Painter
Joined March 2021
Joined March 2021
About the video: Blocking in the Colours of the Bird 1
Overview
“I will now show you how to simply block in all of the colour values of the bird, generally working from dark to light values and from thin to thicker paint.”
In this video lesson Sarah Margaret Gibson addresses the topic: Blocking in the Colours of the Bird 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
“Blocking in the Colors of the Bird In this lesson, I will show you how to simply block in all of the color values of your bird, generally working from thin to thick paint, and from dark to light in value. The core of this lesson and how I teach it is mainly going to be visual. What I will be thinking about as I'm painting is how to simplify all of the detail that I see into larger, flat color values, trying to maintain the quality of edge, so sharp versus soft, as I go. In general, with "alla prima" style painting, it's much better if a value in the block in is slightly too dark, rather tha...”
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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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