Painting Eyes with Oil for Vibrant Portraits
Apply What You've Learned to Portraiture 1
A course by Alai Ganuza , Visual Artist, Painter, and Illustrator
About the video: Apply What You've Learned to Portraiture 1
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to teach you how to apply what you have learned in previous units to paint the rest of the face. I will start from a canvas with the eyes already painted —the same photo as the one used for my project— and I will go step by step with the rest of the parts.”
In this video lesson Alai Ganuza addresses the topic: Apply What You've Learned to Portraiture 1, 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
“Apply What You've Learned to Portraiture In this lesson, we’ll apply what we've learned to portraiture. Although we have already done the project, I encourage you to also do this lesson as you’ll see that its the same thing we did with the eyes but for the teeth, nose, hair, and the rest of the skin. We are simply going to extrapolate the concepts to the entire face without knowing the anatomy that lies below, simply by analyzing the reference image. You can do it with the technique you prefer, although I’m doing it with oil paint. The color theory is the same, but if you are doing it in oi...”
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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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