Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
Mixing and Applying Oil Paint
A course by Jane French , Painter
About the video: Mixing and Applying Oil Paint
Overview
“Now you will learn how to use mediums to adjust the consistency of oil paint. Also, I will show you how to use different brushes to make various marks and effects.”
In this video lesson Jane French addresses the topic: Mixing and Applying Oil Paint, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade. Experiment with light, color, composition, and mark-making to illustrate the features and expressions of a subject in a way that captures their story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Mixing and Applying Oil Paint In this lesson, we will start to think about how to use and apply oil paint. We'll be using three colours. White, yellow, and red. I'll start to put them on my palette. You don't need to use too much. I've also got some thinners in a small container here and some white spirit in a jar. The thinners is just for thinning down my paint. The white spirit is for cleaning my brushes. I've got some rags for wiping my brush occasionally. I've got some oil painting paper, and I've got a selection of brushes. The brushes I'm going to be using are short, flat synthetic br...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting
Jane French
A course by Jane French
Jane French is a painter from the South of England. She grew up in a family of creatives with two siblings who are also artists. As a child, she was always interested in drawing and painting and was encouraged by teachers at school to pursue her passion. She went on to specialize in painting at Newcastle University and, after graduating, worked at a design company before completing a postgraduate degree in information design. Years later, she returned to her artistic roots, painting commissioned portraits for Mark Gatiss and BBC Radio’s Ben Jackson among others.
Jane has run workshops and taught at schools and universities, including the Attenborough Arts Center. She has won numerous awards, had her work featured in exhibitions, and was selected to appear in Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year. Jane also contributed to a book published by Bloomsbury Publishing to honor the heroes of the NHS.
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