Realistic Oil Painting: The Color of Plant Life
Overall stain
A course by Antonio Barahona , Painter
About the video: Overall stain
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you how to make a correct stain that will help you develop the paint safely. ”
In this video lesson Antonio Barahona addresses the topic: Overall stain, 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
“overall stain In this lesson I will teach you how to make a general stain. Let's review. We already have the transfer of the drawing made with our tracing paper. All the passed lines are already in the format of the final project. A general stain consists of making an approximation to the dark and light values. In this case we will not attend to all colors, but as the composition It is a plant group in which green predominates, we will build a medium dark green with a lot of turpentine in a way that gives us a watercolor feeling to differentiate the light areas from the shadow areas. I am u...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Oil Painting: The Color of Plant Life
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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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