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Oil Painting: Neck

Oil painting the neck of a girl's portrait can be tricky depending on the amount of paint and texture of the canvas. Learn more about oil painting the portrait of a girl from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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OK, right now we're going to work on the neck, which is a little bit more tan and a little lighter than the face. When you start using the brush and you've got, it's not filling in all the holes in the canvas, it's because that the paint is not thin enough. It comes thick and you want it thick, but sometimes you need to thin it when you do need to thin it. So, you just need to just break the surface tension of your solvent. Come back, maybe wipe out a little bit of the solvent. And then put it back into the paint. And that will thin it down normally so that it will fill all the little holes made by the canvas texture. This is probably not light enough. I'm going to get some more white for it.

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Oil Painting: Neck

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