Contemporary Oil Painting Techniques
Painting Colored Objects 1
A course by Alai Ganuza , Visual Artist, Painter, and Illustrator
About the video: Painting Colored Objects 1
Overview
“After mixing the general colors that we are going to use, we will paint each object individually. We will start with the colored ones (toast, juice, stuffed animal), since they are the most striking and central elements of the work.”
In this video lesson Alai Ganuza addresses the topic: Painting Colored Objects 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Contemporary Oil Painting Techniques. Discover how to depict the beauty of everyday life on canvas with distinctive brushstrokes and expressive colors.
Partial transcription of the video
“Painting the Objects in Color In this lesson, we’ll start our final project. To do that, we’ll divide our objects into two categories. Firstly, we’ll paint the objects in color. We already practiced with the avocado, so it’ll be much easier. Then we’ll paint the neutral things. We’ll start mixing general colors for the green parts of the avocado. I always use some white as a filler, and put a rag in one hand to clean the palette knife. I mix the general colors with the palette knife. That way, I waste less paint, which would get stuck in the bristles of the brush. Now that the generic color...”
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Course summary for: Contemporary Oil Painting Techniques
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Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting
Alai Ganuza
A course by Alai Ganuza
Although her feet were firmly on the path towards a career in sciences, Alai Ganuza decided to pursue her passion for painting and, in 2020, she earned a degree in fine arts with a major in painting from the Universidad del País Vasco. Her work seeks to pay tribute to everyday life with a unique use of light, color, and expressive brushstrokes.
Alai began sharing her projects on social media each day via Instagram Reels, IGTV, and YouTube, creating a growing demand for her content. It was through these channels that she found herself transitioning naturally to content creation with an informative approach showing how painting can be fast, fresh, and open to everyone.
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