Experimental Oil Painting Techniques for Portraiture

Tonal value 2

A course by Andrés Kal , Visual Artist and Painter

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3,849 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: Tonal value 2

Overview

“I continue explaining the concepts related to tonal value. I'm also going to do a series of tests to exemplify them.”

In this video lesson Andrés Kal addresses the topic: Tonal value 2, 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

“Tonal Values Let's take a look at this in images here. This is a painting by Justin Mortimer, a British painter that I was lucky enough to visit at his studio in London. This particular painting is a high-key one. Normally, his paintings are much more low-key. They're much darker, more in the low-key range, but this is a good example of a high-key image where the dominant is a tonal value of eight or seven more or less, and we see some these dark accents, too. I pixelated the image on purpose here to make it more schematic, more abstract, and visualize what I'm talking about by grouping it ...”

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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.