Painting and Sketching: A Beginner’s Guide

Overview

“In this lesson, I add a second layer of dark green to the trees, enhancing depth while allowing the orange undertone to peek through, adding vibrancy and a painterly quality. I'll block the barn and grass colors, ensuring smooth transitions and proper edge quality.”

In this video lesson Daphne Frizzle addresses the topic: Adjacent Color Comparison 2 , which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting and Sketching: A Beginner’s Guide . Explore painting with Daphne Frizzle! From inspiration to creation, learn essential sketching and painting techniques to enhance your artistic skills..

Partial transcription of the video

“As you can see, adding that second layer of my dark green has made this layer of trees much better and much darker than before. You can still see a little of this orange shining through, but we like to keep that, again for the color vibration and to add a little more visual interest. When things are slightly imperfect, it keeps the viewer looking at your painting a little bit longer and adds a painterly touch. It's important to keep that painterly touch with any sort of realism painting because otherwise, you might as well look at a photograph, right? We want your painting to continue to lo...”

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Course summary for: Painting and Sketching: A Beginner’s Guide

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (19)
• 1400 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 33m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Oil Painting, Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching