Painting Eyes with Oil for Vibrant Portraits
Understanding the Reference Photo
A course by Alai Ganuza , Visual Artist, Painter, and Illustrator
About the video: Understanding the Reference Photo
Overview
“In this lesson I will give you tips to choose your reference photography and I will teach you to understand the colors that you can transform in each part. Later, I will analyze the volumes that make up the forms to be able to make the sketch easily.”
In this video lesson Alai Ganuza addresses the topic: Understanding the Reference Photo, 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
“Understanding the Reference Photo In this lesson, we’ll plan everything for our painting. In this way, we won’t have to stop and think about it later on. Let's simplify that process by doing it now. This is the reference photo I’ve chosen for the final project. Let's look at the shapes first and then at the color. In this part, the important thing is to observe, move away from everything we know and what our brain tells us and just observe so that later on, when we go to paint, we know what's going on here. For example, here we see that this eyeball is not perfectly round as we may normally...”
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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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