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Oil Painting: Blending

Blend around the edges of the portrait when oil painting. Learn more about blending and oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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So now what we're working on is blending. So we don't want to blend all the highlights away and all the shadow areas. So we're working on blending them and keeping a much as we can. So basically you're not blending across an area, like that. You're blending on the edge. Sweeping it back and forth until it softens up. Let's remove some more paint over here because that's where the light's hitting it. And work under the chin here. Remove some paint there. So it's starting to look like a face. It's not quite there yet. But like I said you know you work the whole face and the whole skin area as a hole. That's the way I do it. A lot of other people do it different ways. But, that's my style.

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Oil Painting: Blending

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