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Placing Large Shapes in an Oil Painting

Learn how to place large shapes in your painting in this free instructional video art lesson on oil painting.

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This dark area in here is going to be a bit of violet and then I'm going to add green in later. But right now, I'm kind of making a general statement, putting a little sky color near the tops of the forms on these trees. I'm just looking at making a general statement of the big shapes in the painting. Where's the dark....as an oil painter you can work your darks pretty early in the process. You can begin working in where some of the dark shapes and forms are going to be. There's this bench... and I kind of like the way that cuts off the... there's that bench in between the figure and us and I kind of like compositionally what that does. So I'm going to, I think, leave that in. Okay, so I've got... I'm just using this purple as kind of like you'd use a piece of charcoal just to map out lights and darks.

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Placing Large Shapes in an Oil Painting

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