Introduction to Photorealism for Oil Painting
Blocking In and Details 5
A course by Christopher Paul Stevens , Studio Artist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Blocking In and Details 5
Overview
“At this stage, you will see how I end the blocking-in stage, and how the painting looks realistic but a little blurry as if you were squinting your eyes. From here, I will teach you to add or sharpen any remaining details as needed. ”
In this video lesson Christopher Paul Stevens addresses the topic: Blocking In and Details 5, 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
“ Blocking In and Details Again, why did I do that here and not here, where there's a cast shadow? The only reason for it is so that I can tell where this area here, where it starts and ends. I don't need that necessarily here. This is going to... We're going to get more of a jeweled effect when we go in and glaze with our darker colors up here. For here, it's so that I know exactly where each point that's in this window, where it starts and stops. Go a bit darker up there at the top. It's almost black... but that's close enough. I like that. Got some more across the top here. And one more ...”
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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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