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Oil Painting: Examining From a Distance

Take a few steps back from the oil painting portrait every ten to fifteen minutes to get a different perspective. Learn more about examining oil painting portraits from a distance from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Now it's always a good idea to walk back five to ten feet from your painting and take a look at it. And you need to do this about every, in my opinion, ten to fifteen minutes. No longer than twenty minutes. Because when you come back to it and look from a distance, your view point has changed and you look at it in a different way. And you can see things that you've, don't normally would pick up. And we're going to continue to remove paint. Because it's a lot easier than applying a lot more paint. If the paint's not quite in the right area. Especially if it's darker paint next to lighter paint. Like her lips are a little too thick on the corners. So I'm removing the paint. And the way you do it is you just use your thumb and press down and sweep it off. See?

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Oil Painting: Examining From a Distance

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