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Oil Painting: Eye Gradation

Use white paint when oil painting the eyes of a girl's portrait to add gradation. Learn more about eye gradation and oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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OK, now I need white for the rest of the eye. So to clean the brush I stick the brush, not all the way down to the bottom, just stick it in there. Don't swirl it around and wipe off the paint onto your paper towel. That way your solvent won't get dirty. And you won't have to replace it as often. It still will get dirty, it just will take a lot longer to get there though. OK. Now, so I'm going to go into the direct white. You notice that when I put the color, picked up color, I just picked up color off of part of the white, not all of it. So I left a lot of what I call virgin white. Untouched by any other colors. And I'm going to put the white in. You say well there's already white canvas there. Yes, but we need some gradation in there as well too. Because it isn't all perfectly white. So, we're going to put just a touch of black in there.

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Oil Painting: Eye Gradation

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