Oil Painting Techniques Specialization

Overview

“The grid method is an inexpensive, low-tech way to reproduce and/or enlarge an image that you want to paint or draw. This method can be a fairly time-intensive process, so be patient and persistent. The work you do here will make the painting process easier. First, I will teach you how to do it by using Photoshop to add this grid to the image. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: The Grid 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

“Now that we've gone over the illusion of depth and thinking in 3D, in this lesson we're going to focus on the grid, or the grid method, so that we can transfer our image. But before we do that, we need to make a few adjustments to our original image. So now I'm in Photoshop. I have my original image that I took with my camera phone. One of the first things I want to do is I want to remove any distractions that's in here. And right now the color is going to be a distraction when we do our transfer of the image. So I want to take this color image and turn it basically into a black and white d...”

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Course summary for: Oil Painting Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (20)
• 2431 students
• 7 units
• 100 lessons (20h 58m)
• 26 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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