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 paint from a photo 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. I'm starting now, and we're going to do a photo demonstration. A demonstration from a photograph. This is a photograph that I took on one of the Sedona Art Center's field excursions, a planer painting excursion. This was taken in Italy. And you can see a few grape fields in the background, a bush, someone painting. And what I like about it is the dramatic lighting. That's really important for a. So we have lighting striking the figure dramatically against a dark background. We have bright color of light behind and on a big bush, and some sense of a pathway...and visual pathway...through the image. So compositionally that is important. The thing about photography is always to have enough contrast and clarity to work from. We can see things in a photograph clearly. They don't always translate into a painting unless we have that contrast. The next step really, is to make a small thumbnail sketch. And I'm going to do that just on a bit of watercolor paper here. And I'm just using a pen. A thumbnail sketch is very quick and immediate. A thumbnail sketch is something where you want to block in a square....rectangle; sorry....of the proportions roughly of the painting that you're going to make, and of the image you're working with. And it can be just a linear indication of the major shapes. There's a lot of details in a photograph. And we're not going to put all those details in our painting. It's a small painting, and our goal is to capture the essence of what's going on with the large shapes in the painting."
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