Experimental Oil Painting Techniques for Portraiture

About Me

A course by Andrés Kal , Visual Artist and Painter

98% positive reviews (97)

3,849 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: About Me

Overview

“In this lesson I will talk about my career in the visual medium of graphics and my passion for painting, which has taken me to where I am today.”

In this video lesson Andrés Kal addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Oil Painting Techniques for Portraiture. Learn to use unconventional tools and methods to compose expressive portraits from a reference photo and transform them with colorful strokes.

Partial transcription of the video

“Introduction Hi, welcome to this course. I'm very glad you're joining me on this adventure. I'm Andrés Kal, but my friends call me Kal. I'm a visual artist. I studied graphic design. My story started back when I was in school. When I was 15, I thought I was going to be a musician. I played the violin in the school symphony, and, all of a sudden, I dropped everything to focus on drawing. I would publish an image every week on Fridays and run to the corner to buy the newspaper with my friends. Then, I started meeting a lot more people who were already doing this as professional illustrators. ...”

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Course summary for: Experimental Oil Painting Techniques for Portraiture

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (97)
3849 students
4 units
17 lessons (3h 20m)
10 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting

Andrés Kal

A course by Andrés Kal

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Visual Artist and Painter

Although he is mainly dedicated to portrait painting, Andrés Kal paints what he believes builds the identity of an individual. Since he published his first drawing in a newspaper at the age of 17, he hasn't stopped creating images. Over the last few years, he has developed a personal language to express himself freely.

Throughout his career, he has exhibited his work in Colombia and places like Peru, Mexico, USA, France, and Canada, among others, and he has had the opportunity to collaborate with brands such as Grolsch, VICE, Natura, Soho Magazine, Cromos, and Winsor & Newton.