Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
Keying the Values
A course by Anetta Lukjanova , Visual artist
About the video: Keying the Values
Overview
“Once the underpainting is ready, the next step is to lay down the lightest and darkest parts. We will also try finding the correct tones for each major color area.”
In this video lesson Anetta Lukjanova addresses the topic: Keying the Values, 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, we'll be keying your lightest and darkest values. We'll also be finding the right tones for your bigger color areas. You can start by choosing the right colors for your palette, which enables you to get all the mixes you will need for your reference. These are the colors I've chosen for mine. One of the essential colors we'll need is white, so we can lighten up the colors if needed. Yellow ochre will be the base for most of our mixes, especially the shadow on the wall will be almost pure yellow ochre. For the local color in the wall, in the light side, we'll be using some ca...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
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Category
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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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