How to Paint Hands

Video Transcript

"Hi I am David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to paint with acrylics the female figure. Now we have got a little bit more detail that we need to do on the hand just to kind of pull it out a little bit. What I can do is get some darker raw sienna and just kind of indicate the shadow from the knuckles and that will give it depth and you see there is only one hand on this one, the other one is hidden and then she has red fingernails so I am going to clear my brush and just take some red and just a dab of black because it is not exactly just bright red and I am going to indicate these kind of burgundy nails. Once again this is a moody and dark painting a woman of the night. Now real briefly here, you can roll the water off too, just take it on your palate over here. I am going to get a little more of the black to go and almost outline the fingers. You just kind of have to brush over it lightly. She has this kind of gold and gaudy ring on so I am just going to take some yellow and some burnt sienna and mix that in there, just a kiss of black to indicate that ring there. Once I do that and wash this out so we've got the fingernails and we were working on the ring and I have just got the raw sienna with a little bit of black and then I am going to take a little bit of the yellow and just kind of mix this all up and there we go."