Experimental Oil Painting Techniques for Portraiture

Essential Color Concepts 1

A course by Andrés Kal , Visual Artist and Painter

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3,850 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: Essential Color Concepts 1

Overview

“In this lesson I will explain the basics of color. By assimilating this information you will be able to face the painting of your projects with guarantees.”

In this video lesson Andrés Kal addresses the topic: Essential Color Concepts 1, 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

“Essential Color Concepts Now I will talk to you about color, about the essential basics of creating a painting. Let’s begin. Let's start with the color wheel. It is the graphic representation of the visible spectrum of light. There we find the primary colors, secondary colors, and their derivatives. Primary colors. In basic color theory they are yellow, blue and red. With these we can mix the other colors. By mixing them together, with yellow and red we have orange, with red and blue we have violet, and with blue and yellow we have green. Then the tertiaries are the result of the mixture be...”

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Course summary for: Experimental Oil Painting Techniques for Portraiture

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (97)
3850 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.