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Painting a portrait requires good brushes, many colors of paint, and a lot of practice in painting. Learn essential painting techniques to help you learn how to paint an alternative portrait in this free video series of painting lessons.
There are 17 videos in this series:
Painting alternative portraits requires oil paints of many colors and various paint supplies. Find out what paint supplies you need to paint an alternative portrait in this free video.
Photographs are great subject matter for painting portraits. Learn how to choose photographs and canvas for painting alternative portraits.
Photographs can be transferred to canvas freehand or by tracing with a light box. Learn how to transfer a photograph to canvas for an alternative portrait in this free video.
Adding background colors to canvas is the first step in painting an alternative portrait. Learn how to paint a background on canvas in this free video.
In portraits, painting the clothes of the subject comes after painting the background. Learn how to paint clothes on a subject in a portrait in this free video.
In portraits, painting the clothes of the subject comes after painting the background. Learn how to paint clothes on a subject in a portrait in this free video.
Painting skin in a portrait requires painting the skin tones according to the subject. Learn how to paint skin tones in an alternative portrait in this free video.
Painting skin in a portrait requires painting the skin tones according to the subject. Learn how to paint skin tones in an alternative portrait in this free video.
To paint flame texture in a portrait you need a round brush. Learn how to paint flame texture in a portrait in this free video lesson on painting.
Painting skin texture of a subject in a portrait requires painting over under-painting. Learn how to paint skin texture in an alternative painting in this free video.
Facial hair is painted in a portrait with a flat brush. Learn how to paint facial hair in a portrait in this free video lesson on painting.
Learn how to paint eyes in a portrait in this free video lesson on painting.
Painting clothing in a portrait should be carefully done. Learn how to paint aged clothing in a portrait in this free video lesson on painting.
Painting skin texture of a subject in a portrait requires painting over under-painting. Learn how to paint skin texture in an alternative painting in this free video.
Painting stitching on clothes in a portrait is done with a darker shade of the color used to paint the clothes. Learn how to paint stitching on clothes in an alternative painting in this free video.
Learn how to paint eyes in a portrait in this free video lesson on painting.
Finalizing a portrait with touch ups paint is a great way to add detail to a painting. Learn how to touch up portraitsLearn how to paint eyes in a portrait in this free video lesson on painting.
Painting is the art of using a pigmented medium to create a picture of reality filtered through the imagination, the senses, emotions, and life experience. Artists the world over have multiplied the uses of painting as a vital mode of human expression, whether recording history, retelling myth and legend, expressing religious fervor, or exploring the unknown. From early history to the present, we have records of men and women making graphic representations of each other - portraits in other words.
Painting portraits is still a popular form of painting. If you would like to learn how to paint you can learn from a painter online. In this free video series of painting lessons expert Matt Cail will teach you how to paint an alternative portrait using a photograph. He will demonstrate essential painting techniques such as painting a background, painting clothes, painting skin tones in a portrait. He will also teach you how to paint eyes in a portrait, how to paint facial hair and skin texture.
Matt Cail Matt Cail is a painter, makeup artist and cartoonist who grew up drawing Dracula. While in college, he acted in, directed and designed the University of Washington's campus haunted house. During this time, Cail also began to create oil paintings. <BR /><BR />Cail currently offers his art through two commercial websites: www.homepaintings.biz and www.horrorart.biz, where he takes commissions, sells paintings, caricatures, and other drawings. He draws cartoons and comic strips, which are online at www.horrorcomicstrip.com.dkdk
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