Video: Finishing an Expressionist Portrait Painting

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Finish a portrait session with tips from an artist in this free video on painting.

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So in this series we're going to talk about finishing the first session of your painting. How to know when to stop and whether the first session actually may be the only session. Sometimes you don't need or want a second sitting. Sometimes not right away, and you should know when to walk away from the painting before it's too saturated with paint and then you just start making a mess of the process. And then we'll go through cleaning all your tools and disposing of things safely that should be disposed of, like old turpentine soaked rags and if you can reuse any oil paints, or if it's better to discard it, especially the big accumulations of paint in the mugs of sort of thin paint that we use for broad areas. And how to clean up, take care of your brushes, make sure that they won't harden and that they can be used again. And generally how to assess your painting at the end of the first sitting and know what to do and when to go on.

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Finishing an Expressionist Portrait Painting

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