Oil Painting: Create Surreal Landscapes

Overview

“The underpainting is a really important step of the painting process. While you are making this almost sketch-like illustration, you are defining your main composition and how your painting will look at the end.”

In this video lesson Paul Neberra addresses the topic: Underpainting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oil Painting: Create Surreal Landscapes. Learn to use oil paints to create a unique landscape, combining both realism and symbolism..

Partial transcription of the video

“Underpainting After we prepared our workplace, we're ready to start this lesson where we'll paint the underpainting. This is quite important. In this lesson, you'll understand how to make the composition. After you prepared your workplace, you're now ready to start the underpainting. In this lesson, we're going to make the main composition of your painting. I will start with a simple brush, 12, flat brush. Not too stiff, not too hard, but also not too soft. This is a great brush to start the sketching process. I'll put my brush here, on the solvent, clean it up, take a little bit of Liquin,...”

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Course summary for: Oil Painting: Create Surreal Landscapes

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (54)
• 2078 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 42m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting