Video: Expressionist Portrait Painting: Blending

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Blending colors for an expressionist portrait painting can be done directly on the canvas. Blend colors with tips from an artist in this free video on painting.

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Now, I started putting down different colors here and blending them together, especially the scraping, it's going to work that process fairly far along. But, at the same time, I just want to put a completely different color that I know this yellow has, and some flesh tone that I piled on there, it's going to contribute to the overall flesh tone, so I'll just put it on. Now looking for that brighter spot on her face, it's going to help define it, and see not much actually went on, so put a little up here too, and get a little more and actually I'm blending this color right on the canvas, so, it's not mixed beforehand, it's going to be blended right on there. I'm going to carry this around for a while, it's a really evocative color and it's getting this good effect of sort of eruption of flesh tone here. Okay you blend it later, some parts can be left alone, but it's a much different style of mark than what I put on just a minute ago, and this paint is going to be composed of all these different kinds of marks, slowly building up to the finished product.

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Expressionist Portrait Painting: Blending

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