Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
Starting the Underpainting
A course by Anetta Lukjanova , Visual artist
About the video: Starting the Underpainting
Overview
“In this lesson, I will help you to establish a base drawing of your reference with one color. This will be the underpainting.”
In this video lesson Anetta Lukjanova addresses the topic: Starting the Underpainting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture. Learn to build your creative expression and apply it to the process of representational portrait painting .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to do the underpainting. In this lesson, we'll only be using one color. I've chosen raw umber, which is a commonly used underpainting color. I'll put some of this on the palette. Before we start, I'd like to mention about imprimatura. Some people like to cover their white canvas first before painting. This means they don't have to cover all the white on the canvas. In my tendencies, I usually cover the whole canvas anyway, so in my case, it doesn't really matter, but you can do as you like. We'll try to work with only three values. For the light parts, we'l...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting, Portrait Drawing
Anetta Lukjanova
A course by Anetta Lukjanova
Annetta Lukjanova is a visual artist specializing in contemporary figurative realism. Drawing from the classically trained old masters of oil painting, her work is technical. However, with digital tools and current subjects, her pieces have a modern edge. She has painted outdoor murals in Finland, Australia, Spain, Norway, and Russia and worked with Sealife Helsinki, mural producers UPEArt and B-murals, musicians Vesta and Jukio Kallio, and Stenograffia and Spraykancontrol Festivals.
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