Painting Eyes with Oil for Vibrant Portraits
Painting the Eyes 2
A course by Alai Ganuza , Visual Artist, Painter, and Illustrator
About the video: Painting the Eyes 2
Overview
“I continue painting the eyes of my project explaining in detail the different steps I am taking.”
In this video lesson Alai Ganuza addresses the topic: Painting the Eyes 2, 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
“Painting the Eyes Now I'm going to go back to the wider brush I had from before to make all the visual planes outline the eyeball. It is true that exaggerating the forms is cool because we are emphasizing the visual planes we move in... For example, this iris here we know is in this visual plane of the eye... but some have to be corrected on the fly because they are too exaggerated. I don’t really like how this one looks in comparison to the eyeball. So I'm going to correct this part here with a smaller brush, making it more like the reference. Now I am going to clean the brush with solvent...”
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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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