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.
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
"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."