How to Define the Edges of an Oil Painting

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name in Vince Fazio and I'm here to talk to you from the Sedona Art Center to talk to you about one session oil paintings. So, we're at a stage where we've got the stage set. Each painting has a focal point, and the focal point of this painting is the figure in the landscape. So what I'm going to do now is start developing this focal point, and create some harder edges, fine tune the gesture of the figure, get the contrast between the figure and the background developed while at the same time I'm developing the edges. So the contrast of the hat with the background, the brim of the hat, light hitting the shoulder a bit of light on the waist of the coat... so that edge is starting to be developed against the background. And now I'm going to have to work a bit on the shadow within that basically light area, so it's not going to be anywhere near as dark as the shadows elsewhere in the painting because that's picking up a lot of reflected light."