Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
Sculpting the Volume
A course by Anetta Lukjanova , Visual artist
About the video: Sculpting the Volume
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to add smaller color areas and start sculpting the portrait form. We will consider the relationships between light and shadow. ”
In this video lesson Anetta Lukjanova addresses the topic: Sculpting the Volume, 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 adding smaller planes to the face. We'll also be adding a bit more variation between the light and the shadow tones. As you can see, we have only added the light shape and the shadow shape. Actually, there's a lot more happening in the reference photo. If you think about where the light is coming, it's going to come from here. And so this area and this area are going to be the planes that are catching most of the light. This means that there's going to be an area on the forehead and on the cheek that are not going to have light as strong as on the other parts. I thi...”
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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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