Portrait Painting with Oil: Explore Light and Shade
Working on a Series and Developing Your Practice
A course by Jane French , Painter
About the video: Working on a Series and Developing Your Practice
Overview
“In this lesson, I will talk about the importance of continuing to develop your practice. I will suggest some ideas for working on a series.”
In this video lesson Jane French addresses the topic: Working on a Series and Developing Your Practice, 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
“Working on a Series and Developing Your Practice In this lesson, we'll talk about continuing your practice and how to develop a series. It's really important to paint portraits that interest you. Don't try and paint portraits to please others. Do what you really love doing. I think, in my experience, if you do what you love doing, it will improve the way you work, but it will also be pleasurable along the way. Commissions are a good thing to do to help you improve your skills at portrait making, but try and be a bit choosy when you're offered them. When working on commissions, I'd recommend...”
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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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