Introduction to Photorealism for Oil Painting
The Grid 1
A course by Christopher Paul Stevens , Studio Artist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: The Grid 1
Overview
“The grid method is an inexpensive, low-tech way to reproduce and/or enlarge an image that you want to paint or draw. This method can be a fairly time-intensive process, so be patient and persistent. The work you do here will make the painting process easier. First, I will teach you how to do it by using Photoshop to add this grid to the image. ”
In this video lesson Christopher Paul Stevens addresses the topic: The Grid 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Photorealism for Oil Painting. Recreate the effects of photography with brushes and oil paint to create a realistic image on canvas using layering and blocking techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now that we've gone over the illusion of depths and thinking in 3D, In this lesson, we're going to focus on the grid, or the grid method, so that we can transfer our image. But before we do that, we need to make a few adjustments to our original image. So now I'm in. Photoshop. I have my original image that I took with my camera phone. One of the first things I want to do is I want to remove any distractions that's in here. And right now the color is gonna be a distraction when we do our transfer of the image. So I want to take this color image and turn it basically into a black and white d...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Photorealism for Oil Painting
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting, Realistic Drawing
Christopher Paul Stevens
A course by Christopher Paul Stevens
Christopher Paul Stevens is a contemporary realist painter from Savannah, Georgia. He completed his MFA in painting in 2015. Stevens currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works full-time out of his studio. His artwork can be seen at galleries in New York, Dublin, Montreal, Portland, and Atlanta, and is featured in the Art Collection at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
His paintings capture the daily routines of 21st century Americans as they progress through their lives. By translating photographs of ordinary affairs into paintings, Stevens elevates the mundane to the monumental. His current work challenges contemporary expectations of art by exploring the relationship between painting and photography, focusing on pushing the boundaries of photorealism by exploring ways of capturing and manipulating the photograph.
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