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Oil Painting: Softening the Eyes

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    Part of the video series: Oil Painting: Girl Portrait

    Summary: When oil painting a portrait, soften the edges of the corneas by creating a few radial strokes with the paint brush. Learn more about softening the eyes from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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    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

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    "Now, what we're going to do is soften the edge of the inside outer edge of the corneas a little bit. And, we're going to come back and do sort of some radial strokes very, thin coming out of the pupil. Not very many of them, just enough that's going to make it look more like an eye. Ok."

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