Painting Eyes with Oil for Vibrant Portraits
Materials
A course by Alai Ganuza , Visual Artist, Painter, and Illustrator
About the video: Materials
Overview
“First, I will briefly show you my physical and digital materials. I will explain everything that I am going to use during the course and I will give you advice and recommendations.”
In this video lesson Alai Ganuza addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting Eyes with Oil for Vibrant Portraits. Learn to make expressive brushstrokes with colorful oil paint to bring portraits to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“Materials In this lesson, we’ll look at the materials. Let's start with everything we need to prepare the support. I’ll use wood. This is MDF. We get it from lumberyards and it's nice because we can cut it. To do so we use a ruler, a cutter, and an anti-cut glove to be careful with the hand with which we are holding it. We're going to use gesso to prime with a trowel and then we're going to use acrylic to color it. If we want to sand, we will do it with a hand sander and we can use masking tape to affix the wood to the table. I'll clear the table, and I'm going to show you the materials I u...”
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Course summary for: Painting Eyes with Oil for Vibrant Portraits
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Oil Painting, Painting
Alai Ganuza
A course by Alai Ganuza
Although her feet were firmly on the path towards a career in sciences, Alai Ganuza decided to pursue her passion for painting and, in 2020, she earned a degree in fine arts with a major in painting from the Universidad del País Vasco. Her work seeks to pay tribute to everyday life with a unique use of light, color, and expressive brushstrokes.
Alai began sharing her projects on social media each day via Instagram Reels, IGTV, and YouTube, creating a growing demand for her content. It was through these channels that she found herself transitioning naturally to content creation with an informative approach showing how painting can be fast, fresh, and open to everyone.
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