Introduction to Surrealist Oil Painting

Overview

“It can also be something that worries or disturbs you constantly, maybe some memory, dream, nightmare, fear or anxiety you have in mind. Whatever this is, we will land it on a theme and turn it into elements. It is necessary to review the references I postulated at the beginning and study their characters, to realize what elements they added to create these works.”

In this video lesson Jhoel Mamani Espinoza addresses the topic: Character creation part 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Surrealist Oil Painting. Learn this painting technique and create dreamlike characters, scenes, and worlds.

Partial transcription of the video

“CHARACTER CREATION In this second process, we will begin to define in a more technical way the elements that I have postulated now. If it's a book, we can locate a book, but in a slightly more interesting position. It can be an almost closed book or a broken book or a book with an unconventional format. It can be a circular book. Let's try to denature the idea we have of a book and represent it in another way. Something that does not resemble a book, but that fulfills the function of a book. That is, let's try to modify either its form, its color, its size, its texture or those patterns tha...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Surrealist Oil Painting

• Level: Beginner
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• 6 units
• 25 lessons (4h 2m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting