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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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. Okay, I'm going to talk a bit about the difference painting and drawing have and that when you're painting you want to pay attention to (I was talking about abstract qualities) the color of the hat against the background. The color of where the light's striking the hat and then the color of the shadow on the hat. If you can get those three colors to work together to be accurate, you will have a good sense of space, and light striking form right there.... a bit of a blue color there. So what I'm doing is working on with a small brush, close in, working on the focal point. This is where I'm going to use a little bit of alizarin crimson and green to create a black. The focal point of a painting is usually where major areas of light and dark strike each other. It looks like I'm going to lower this bench just a little bit somewhere along the way here. And then I'm going to work a little bit around that figure. I need the right value around that figure. And then as I work around the figure, I'm painting the figure. Because it's a matter of, as I said, locating three different colors that are the right color and then fine tuning the shapes. Keeping to the simple idea of the color temperature environment that's created by that figure against that landscape. So at this point I'm going to go into this area and this area to kind of bring those in and those values and colors will help me create the figure."
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