Realistic Figure Painting with Acrylic and Oil
Toning the Canvas
A course by Aidan Barker-Hill , Artist
Joined March 2021
About the video: Toning the Canvas
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to tint your canvas with acrylic paint. ”
In this video lesson Aidan Barker-Hill addresses the topic: Toning the Canvas, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Figure Painting with Acrylic and Oil. Learn the art of highly rendered realistic figure painting. Master sketching, acrylic underpainting, and oil paint rendering..
Partial transcription of the video
“All right, so we've been over a lot of the conceptual ideas of how to paint, but in this lesson, we're going to be actually beginning on the surface itself. So, right now, I have a pure white piece of linen, pre-primed linen that's stretched over some stretcher bars, and in order to get ready to actually start working on it, I need to tone the surface. So, this pure white doesn't work great as a base for determining our values at the beginning, so I usually like to take some raw umber acrylic paint and put a thin wash over the surface at the beginning so that I'm able to judge some of my to...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Figure Painting with Acrylic and Oil
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Realistic Drawing
Aidan Barker-Hill
A course by Aidan Barker-Hill
Aidan Barker-Hill is a distinguished artist with a strong background in figurative and realistic art. He has showcased his works at prestigious galleries like Arcadia Contemporary in New York City. With a wealth of experience, Aidan is passionate about passing on his knowledge to aspiring artists.
His dedication to promoting a more expressive and inclusive definition of masculinity through his colorful and evocative artworks has garnered acclaim and recognition. Through this course, Aidan shares his artistic vision and techniques, empowering students to bring their own creative visions to life.
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