Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
Adding Highlights and Final Details 1
A course by Jane French , Painter
About the video: Adding Highlights and Final Details 1
Overview
“With the base skin tones complete, it's time to add highlights! Then, I will teach you how to paint the hair, clothing, and background. ”
In this video lesson Jane French addresses the topic: Adding Highlights and Final Details 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
“Adding Highlights and Final Details Now, we'll add the highlights as well as details such as hair and background. I'm looking at the reference now. I've blocked in all the basic tones on the face, and I want to check that the lightest areas are light enough and the darkest areas are dark enough. I'll probably just lighten up some of the areas on this side of the face and possibly a little bit up here on the nose and the forehead. I'll go back to my palette and look at this first value that I originally made right at the beginning. That's a bit light, so I'll combine it with a little bit of ...”
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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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