Realistic Oil Painting: The Color of Plant Life
About Me
A course by Antonio Barahona , Painter
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson I will introduce myself, I will talk about how I started in painting and what my trajectory has been. I will also make a tour of the main authors who have influenced my pictorial language, highlighting which details of each one have marked me the most.”
In this video lesson Antonio Barahona addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Oil Painting: The Color of Plant Life. Learn oil painting techniques to create realistic plant compositions from scratch, focusing on shapes, colors, and perception.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Welcome to my Domestika course. I am Antonio Barahona, painter, Bachelor of Fine Arts by the University of Seville, in the specialty of painting. My father is a painter, the painter Manuel Barahona. I invite you to see his work. I never had to tell my parents: "Daddy, Mommy, I want to be an artist", but I was already born in the world of art, in the world of painting. I started showing up at speed painting contests and this activity I combined with my education at the Faculty of Seville. When leaving the Faculty of Seville, I met the painting chairs that Antonio López still tea...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Oil Painting: The Color of Plant Life
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Oil Painting, Painting
Antonio Barahona
A course by Antonio Barahona
Antonio Barahona studied fine arts before earning a degree in painting from the University of Seville, Spain. He was given a grant to study at the Antonio Gala Foundation, where he created the project Costumbrismo andaluz. Through many years of research and dedication to his art, he became an expert at depicting plants with oil paint, specializing in the interplay between vegetation and light as well the color green and all its complexities.
His paintings have won numerous awards and have been displayed in group exhibitions, international contemporary art fairs like KunstRAI Art Fair (2021), put on by GalerieMokum, and solo exhibitions including Sobre verdes y otras verdades, held at the El Quatre venue in Barcelona (2016). He has also collaborated with prestigious brands like Winsor & Newton.
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