Expressive Techniques for Oil Painting

Value scale

A course by Ana Laso Baeza , Artist Specialized in Oil Painting Techniques

Artist Specialized in Oil Painting Techniques. San Sebastián de los Reyes, Spain.
Joined November 2018
89% positive reviews (27)
569 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: Value scale

Overview

“Whenever you are faced with a color, you must know what hue, what saturation and what value it has. In this lesson we will work on the scale of values so that you do not miss any of these properties.”

In this video lesson Ana Laso Baeza addresses the topic: Value scale, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Techniques for Oil Painting. Learn to paint vibrant and colorful works of art from scratch and explore creativity without limits.

Partial transcription of the video

“Value scale In this lesson we will see what the value scale is to understand even better, if possible, the color wheel. We will use only two colors, which are white and black. We will put the white in the first box and black in the last. So now we would have to go little by little increasing the value of the white until you reach black. To speed it up and to make it easier, we will look for the medium gray. We will remove it by taking half and half. The way to compare if it is coming out very dark or not it is simply to pick it up and bring it closer to white and then to black. The contrast...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Techniques for Oil Painting

  • Level: Beginner
  • 89% positive reviews (27)
  • 569 students
  • 5 units
  • 16 lessons (3h 2m)
  • 4 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Areas

    Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting

Ana Laso Baeza

Ana Laso Baeza
A course by Ana Laso Baeza

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Artist Specialized in Oil Painting Techniques

Ana Laso is an artist specialized in oil painting techniques. Her passions revolve around the figurative and the abstract and her weakness is jazz music, which she reinterprets using color and expressiveness in her work.

She trained at the Taller del Prado, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and the Escuela de Arte Atenea, as well as the workshops of artists such as Miguel Coronado, Paco Abuja, and Salvador Antúnez del Cerro. She has exhibited in the major cities around Spain and several other countries in the Americas. Her constantly evolving artwork emanates a fresh and elegant style, with soft tones and silky strokes, evoking emotions through color and inspired by music.


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Expressive Techniques for Oil Painting. Illustration course by Ana Laso Baeza

Expressive Techniques for Oil Painting

A course by Ana Laso Baeza
Artist Specialized in Oil Painting Techniques. San Sebastián de los Reyes, Spain.
Joined November 2018
  • 89% positive reviews (27)
  • 569 students