Oil Landscape Painting: Explore the Power of Light
Final details
A course by Alexandre Reider , Visual Artist
About the video: Final details
Overview
“This is the moment when we will focus on finishing and finishing touches of the paint. I will add small details and use light to enrich the narrative.”
In this video lesson Alexandre Reider addresses the topic: Final details, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oil Landscape Painting: Explore the Power of Light. Learn oil painting techniques using light as a narrative tool to convey ideas and feelings.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this class... It's time to listen. Listen to the canvas; it reveals the final touches needed. Let it guide your artistic decisions. Therefore. it's essential to take a moment to assess the progress made up until now. Perhaps. within this artwork. the canvas is suggesting the inclusion of additional details for that far-off component. which create an interesting disruption in the established color palette. These elements can be a window. a door. or a human figure to add scale to the composition. I frequently incorporate graphic elements. such as branches and trunks. using the frottage tec...”
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Course summary for: Oil Landscape Painting: Explore the Power of Light
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Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Oil Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration

Alexandre Reider
A course by Alexandre Reider
Alexandre Reider is an artist specializing in oil painting from São Paulo who started painting at just 14. He studied at the Escola Panamericana de Arte and received a degree in social communication from the FAAP. Before dedicating himself exclusively to painting, he produced illustrations for a range of different advertising agencies.
A large part of his work depicts either rural or urban scenes using a combination of realism and expressionism. He is the founder of Plein Air Studio, a studio that focuses on arts education, offering painting and illustration courses, workshops, and talks.
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