Portrait Painting Workshop - Male - 2105

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01:49:53

Description

In this video Steve demonstrates all of the steps to complete an oil painting portrait from the initial drawing to the finished piece. All aspects of portraiture are discussed.

Index

00:00:08 - ZAC dryer medium for the workshop

00:00:49 - Drawing with a brush, placing and sizing the portrait

00:02:19 - Finding your beauty, what do you want to say, sletching the form, alignment

00:04:36 - Adding mor ultramarine blue for the eyeforms

00:06:56 - Working on the nose, shadow, mouth form

00:08:12 - Building the head form and hair form, adding the ear

00:10:37 - Getting the dark forms to registerin the eyes

00:12:44 - Getting the nose form and cast shadow

00:15:06 - Refining the mouth and beard, continuing with the dark values

00:19:25 - Begin day 2, adding color beginning with glazing, looking for attitude

00:25:11 - Covering the canvas, putting in background color

00:35:08 - Refining the drawing beginning with the eyes, working the nose, back to the eyes

00:41:21 - Continue with darks, acknowledge the mouth, hairline, jawline

00:43:17 - Working on the beard

00:45:06 - Mixing fleshtones, building form working from dark tones to light

00:59:54 - An example by Sargent, the value of a neutral color, using color to its max potential

01:01:46 - Establishing edge with darks

01:06:49 - Defining the ear, continuing with darks

01:10:01 - Working on the beard

01:11:20 - Finding neutralizing color in the flesh, beard, and hair

01:16:42 - Picking up 1 or 2 of the richest colors, defining form

01:21:02 - Refinements and touchups

01:26:19 - Building up the highlightss to the lightest lights

01:29:57 - Refining the beard and hair

01:41:17 - Adding a complimentary color to make color vibrate, applying the finishing touches

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