Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
Monochromatic Underpainting 2
A course by Sarah Margaret Gibson , Classical Realist Painter
Joined March 2021
Joined March 2021
About the video: Monochromatic Underpainting 2
Overview
“Now that we have essentially finished the basic underpainting, we are going to go ahead and use another painting technique to bring out the brightest areas of the form.”
In this video lesson Sarah Margaret Gibson addresses the topic: Monochromatic Underpainting 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
“So now that I have essentially finished the underpainting, in terms of how far we can go with the raw umber and black mixture. And I've established... my outline, my shadow edges, and even my value grouping as accurately as I can for this stage, I'm now going to go ahead and use a technique called heightening with white. This is where I take the brightest areas of the form And some of the areas which are properly white because of the pattern on the feathering and I'm going to lay in a thin bit of our lead white in anticipation of the color block in in the next lesson. This will help to achi...”
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Course summary for: Classical Oil Painting for Naturalist Bird Portraiture
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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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