Painting Clothes in a Portrait: Subject 1

Video Transcript

"Now, I'm going to take the same brush that I used to paint in the background area here. It's still muddy with some of the blacks and greens yellows and reds. And, that's just fine. Because, I'm going to be applying some purple and I'm going to start painting in basically this clothing area. I'm going to go for kind of a grayish muddy purple as the base layer. This is going to be the color we're going to later build off of. I'm going back to get purple, as it starts to weaken out. Also, liberally apply white. And, do not forget your medium that you're also going to be using to thin out these colors. Now, as we apply this there are going to be different shades I want to have. Near the collar region here, I want this to be darker up in here. So, that means more purple. It also might mean just a touch of black. Though, not too much or it will come to easily dominate and muddify your purple. Conversely, down in this region here kind of more the mid section in the area I want this to be more faded. The emphasis is not on this. You're going to have lighter shades of purple. These are going to ebon-flow out of each other. If you see very very stark borders, look to quickly blend it. And, then blending by simply going right back and forth. See how the colors now blend together and they're a lot less severe. And, see up here the same thing is happening. Quickly blend it. I don't want to have a lot of super stark strong colors, not for this first layer that I'm putting down."