Experimental Oil Painting Techniques for Portraiture

Technical possibilities: materials and tools

A course by Andrés Kal , Visual Artist and Painter

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3,851 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: Technical possibilities: materials and tools

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you the materials, tools and types of support that I use. I will also teach you how to prepare a surface with a quick but very effective basic primer.”

In this video lesson Andrés Kal addresses the topic: Technical possibilities: materials and tools, 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

“Technical Possibilities: Materials and Tools In this lesson I'll be showing you some of the materials that I use and that will be necessary for our final project. Materials Let's start with the acrylics. Acrylics are water-based pigments. In other words, to mix them, we only need water as a medium. In the case of oils, they need a specific medium, which is oil, which is one of the things we have here. Turpentine is the essential, basic, lean element that we use to start mixing oil. We have flaxseed oil. We have Dammar varnish, which is more of a protective resin, but it is to finish a paint...”

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Course summary for: Experimental Oil Painting Techniques for Portraiture

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (97)
3851 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.