Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
Pre-mixing Skin Tones and Painting the Dark Areas 1
A course by Jane French , Painter
About the video: Pre-mixing Skin Tones and Painting the Dark Areas 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to begin the painting process by pre-mixing a set of basic skin tones and then using them to paint some of the darker areas of the portrait.”
In this video lesson Jane French addresses the topic: Pre-mixing Skin Tones and Painting the Dark Areas 1, 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
“In this lesson, we'll pre-mix our skin tones and start painting the dark areas on our portrait. So I'm gonna start mixing a range of skin tones to suit this particular reference. I'm going to use a short flat brush as before And I'm going to start by looking at the reference and deciding where the range of values are. So, for example, there's lots of light values on this side of her face, some mid-tones around the middle and to this side. And then there's shadow, values around the neck, around the eyes, under the hair and so on. So as before I'll start with the lightest values when I'm mixi...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
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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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