Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques
The First Layer: Block-In
A course by Diana Buitrago , Realist Painter
About the video: The First Layer: Block-In
Overview
“If you wish to slow down the process of cracking, inevitable with oil paintings, it's important to work in layers. It is the “Fat over Lean” rule. To follow this process, I will start with an initial layer of blocking, which I will do directly on the canvas using Raw Umber. ”
In this video lesson Diana Buitrago addresses the topic: The First Layer: Block-In, which is part of the Domestika online course: Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques. Learn how to paint atmospheric landscapes that capture natural light using plein-air techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The First Layer: Block-In In this lesson, I will show you how to approach the first stage or the first layer of painting. We will be doing the block-in session. In the beginning, you want to start with raw umber. I'll take the raw umber and a bigger bristle brush I showed you at the beginning, and try to use either solvent or half and half. Remember I showed you, or I said before, that we were going to make a half and half medium so that's why I asked to have one or two jars, so combine solvent and oil of your preference. I'm using Galkyd Lite because it dries faster, but you can use lins...”
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Course summary for: Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting
Diana Buitrago
A course by Diana Buitrago
Diana Buitrago is a classically-trained realist painter from Colombia. She’s currently based in Jersey City, and works in New York City. The focus of her work is on both landscape painting and portrait painting from life. She’s received extensive formal artistic training at the Art Students League, Artistic Anatomy coursework at Drexel University's School of Medicine, and the four-year Core Program at the Grand Central Atelier. She has studied under artists Michael Grimaldi, Dan Thompson, Jon DeMartin, Jacob Collins, and Colleen Barry. Her work has been exhibited in New York in Eleventh Street Arts Gallery, Robert Simon Fine Art, Salmagundi Club, The Phyllis Harriman Gallery, and as well as at the Colombian Embassy in New York.
She now teaches painting to the advanced students in the Core Program at the Grand Central Atelier. She’s also taught workshops for The Art Students League of New York and in other institutions around the world such as Paris, Vienna, and Mexico City. When she’s not teaching, she’s at home painting in her studio or out traveling painting landscapes en Plein-air. In 2018, she was awarded a Fellowship with The La Napoule Foundation, which took her to the South of France to paint the beautiful Côte d'Azur. She’s also a four-time Hudson River Fellow, which allowed her to paint breathtaking landscapes in New Hampshire, New York’s Hudson Valley, and Connecticut. In 2019, her painting “Portrait of a Young Dancer” won a certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America.
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