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Oil Painting: Finishing the Eyes

Add a little gray to the eyes to create depth and add gradation when oil painting a portrait. Learn to finish the eye's of a girl's oil painting portrait from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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OK, we want the eyes to be a little warmer than just gray. So we're going to put in the corners of the eye a little bit, now we've already put white down, so we're putting a color on top of it. Sort of a warm, flesh colored gray. Looks more interesting than just a standard gray. OK. Now near the cornea we have to have solid white. And I want to trim up the cornea that I went over on right here by putting some more white down. Don't get the white too thick. But you can get it a little bit thick when you're doing this. I'm continuing to gradate from the pure white near that cornea into the corner which is sort of a got a little bit of Alizarin Crimson, plus it's got Raw Sienna and a tiny bit of black. So, we've covered the eyes.

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Oil Painting: Finishing the Eyes

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