What Is One Session Painting?
What Is Plain Air Painting?
Still Life Oil Painting
How to Set Up a Still Life for Oil Painting
Choosing Paints for Oil Painting
Choosing Paint Colors for Oil Painting
Types of Brushes for Oil Painting
How to Use a Paint Pallet for Oil Painting
Oil Painting from a Photo
How to Make a Thumbnail Sketch for an Oil Painting
How to Start an Oil Painting
Placing Large Shapes in an Oil Painting
Canvas Coverage in Oil Painting
Painting a Figure with Oils Painting
Basics of Color Transition in Oil Painting
How to Define the Edges of an Oil Painting
How to Pick Figure Colors for an Oil Painting
How to Use a Focal Point in an Oil Painting
How to Finish an Oil Painting
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Summary: Learn how to set up a still life to paint with oils in this free instructional video art lesson on oil painting.
Vince Fazio, an artist for 29 years, is currently the Art director of the Sedona art center and has been for 9 years. you can see his work at www.vincefazio.blogspot.com and contact...read more
"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Vince Fazio, and I'm here to talk to you from the Sedona art center about one session oil paintings. One of the nice things for a one session painting is still life. Still life is neat because you can do anything in still life. You can be looking down from above, you can be looking up, you can be looking straight across. You can control the lighting, you can decide what objects are involved. It can become autobiographical, it can become very personal, it can be fun. People do still life's of toys, creating even little scenarios with toys. It's really probably the most unlimited form for painting. One thing about it is that you can control the lighting. One traditional set up is to create a box which becomes a little stage where you put your still life objects. The advantage of this is you get some really dramatic lighting and you'll see that if you... what I've got here is I've got a hole cut on the side of a cardboard box with light streaming in, so these objects are being caught by that light, and they're being protected from ambient light that's just in the room in general or daylight that's in the room. These flaps are actually adjustable so you can create a more light or dark situation, emphasizing the direct light more. So you can play with the arrangement of the objects to create dramatic effect as far as the light or also to create depth in the situation. I'm using a black stage situation here. But that's going to give me really good contrast between the shadows, really bright highlights. Some of that gets washed out if you're just working on a table top in ambient light. So controlling your lighting is one of the freedoms you have with still life painting."
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