Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
Adding Highlights and Final Details 2
A course by Jane French , Painter
About the video: Adding Highlights and Final Details 2
Overview
“Finally, you will see how to paint the background. I will teach you how to choose a colour to complement your portrait. I've chosen a bright blue because I think it will look good with the orange streaks in her hair. You may prefer a more neutral background or you may leave it as the original ground colour. ”
In this video lesson Jane French addresses the topic: Adding Highlights and Final Details 2, 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 As before, I'll start with these dark values. Because you've got quite a lot of long strokes of the same colour, I'm just doing nice big strokes with the brush just to cover the area. This is where you can have a bit of fun with mark-making and just enjoy the texture of the paint. Don't worry if you've got little areas that are lighter. You can definitely go over the top of there with the lighter tones. You can slightly drag the brush. If you don't want it fully dark, you can just drag it over the surface. I'm using quite a big brush, but always be carefu...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
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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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