Oil Painting Techniques Specialization

Overview

“You will learn to get comfortable with different types of brushes and understand with little exercises how and when to use them.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Mixing Medium and First Brush Strokes, 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're going to talk about brushes, how to use them, and then I'm going to show you how to mix colors. I will begin here by showing you a natural Bristol brush. These are Hawk Airs and brushes for oils are always big in the handle so you can maintain a certain distance from the canvas. This type of brush is really great for starting and building up the body of your painting. So I'm going to show you here some oil paints coming directly out of the tube. You can see it's really thick, it has a lot of body, and this type of brush is going to leave some brush strokes. You're goin...”

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Course summary for: Oil Painting Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (17)
• 2185 students
• 7 units
• 100 lessons (20h 58m)
• 26 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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