How to Paint Portraits in Oils

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Savago Lome. I'm an artist here in South Florida. Today I'm going to show you how to paint portraits in oil. Here's our paint the outlining of the model. Let's start with the forehead and the line of the eyes like a three Z. Then put too much color, like this. Try, try, try to make like easy shapes; the mouth, the lips. It looks like the cartoon but it should be like this; and the ear and the shape of the hair and this is pretty easy and now we can start over painting this portrait. Now let's start with the shadows. Shadows can be the form and the coat. So we need to find these colors in the face and just paint; the shadow on the nose; actually fill the eye with coal, like this, here's the shadow; and another one. So don't blend the colors until the whole face with the black who is color. Now working a little bit on the hair; I just curve the shape of it; always black, black color. Now I use my blending brush and just make the, just more softer, just like this and keep working all over the face, just little smooth movement, like this and working until all the edges of the color will be slowly going into each other. So as you notice I did a little bit of the shirt and now I'm going to do the details. After blending you might lose some shapes like the nose; so it's easy to improve where the nostrils; the dark shapes of the, of the nose, like this and the line of the lips. So we can add some details. This is the way how to paint the portraits in oil. This is Savago Lome, thank you for watching."