Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
Finishing Touches
A course by Anetta Lukjanova , Visual artist
About the video: Finishing Touches
Overview
“To bring the painting to a strong finish, I will give an example of how to add the final details, accents, and focal points. ”
In this video lesson Anetta Lukjanova addresses the topic: Finishing Touches, 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 will finish the background, add some reflected lights and the details. If I compare my background to the one on the reference, I feel like mine is a little bit too saturated, so I'll try to tone that down. I'll try and not touch the purple accent, since that would contaminate my color. Usually, it's good that all your colors are contaminated by each other. That means you're working with a harmonious palette. It's only details like this, where you have two opposite colors, you should be a bit more careful. If you look at my palette, you can see that I've basically blended ...”
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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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