Oil Painting Techniques Specialization

Overview

“Here, I will show you how to begin the painting process by pre-mixing a set of basic skin tones and then using them to paint some of the darker areas of the portrait.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Pre-mixing Skin Tones and Painting the Dark Areas 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oil Painting Techniques Specialization. Master oil painting techniques to create expressive portraits, surreal landscapes, and photorealistic effects using varied materials.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we'll pre-mix our skin tones and start painting the dark areas on our portrait. So I'm going to start mixing a range of skin tones to suit this particular reference. I'm going to use a short flat brush as before and I'm going to start by looking at the reference and deciding where the range of values are. So for example there's lots of light values on this side of her face, some mid-tones around the middle and to this side and then there's shadow values around the neck, around the eyes, under the hair and so on. So as before I'll start with the lightest values when I'm mixing...”

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Course summary for: Oil Painting Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
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• 2430 students
• 7 units
• 100 lessons (20h 58m)
• 26 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing