eHow Blog:

Oil Painting: Refining the Eyes

Video Preview

    Part of the video series: Oil Painting: Girl Portrait

    Summary: Use black paint to help shape and refine the eyes when oil painting portraits. Learn more about refining the eyes and oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

    Views:
    550
    Presenter
    By Cody Davis , eHow Presenter

    Cody Davis earned his second-degree black belt in 2006. He is a great teacher of the Shaolin/Kenpo arts. Sifu Davis has been a student of the arts for more than 13 years.read more

    Post a Comment

    Post a Comment

    Video Transcript

    "OK. The cornea's too tall so we're going to cut it off some here and the pupil's too tall. So, in the refining process we're just going to keep working on it. Needs a little white in it. It's too dark because the black was added. And I'm sort of just blending on the canvas. I'm adding a little more green and a little more white, in order to get both the eyes to be the same tone. OK. Now we're going to put in some black for the eye lashes and eye lids."

    Related Ads

    Related Videos
    • Have you done this? Click here to let us know.

    Arts & Entertainment Fans

    Follow us

    • Arts & Entertainment
    • Arts & Entertainment
    Get Free Arts & Entertainment Newsletters

    Copyright © 1999-2010 eHow, Inc. Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the eHow Terms of Use and Privacy Policy .   en-US † requires javascript

    Demand Media
    eHow_eHow Arts and Entertainment