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How to Paint an Alternative Portrait

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.

Series Summary

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.
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About the Presenter

Matt Cail