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Crash Course to learn how to paint PORTRAITS like a Master
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Crash Course to learn how to paint PORTRAITS like a Master

Learn the technique used by the Masters of the past to paint an amazing portrait
Created byAntonios Kosmadakis
Last updated 11/2022
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What you'll learn

  • How to Paint a Portrait like the old Masters
  • The complete use of Egg Tempera
  • The pigments used in egg tempera
  • The brushes used in egg tempera
  • How to do a black and white underpainting of the portrait
  • How to slowly paint volume and create a vivid portrait in the style of the Rennaissance Masters

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Course content

6 sections • 13 lectures • 9h 50m total length

  • Preparing the egg tempera solution4:38

    Learn how to prepare an egg tempera solution by separating yolk, creating an emulsion with vinegar, filtering out membranes, and combining with dry pigments for portrait painting.

  • The pigments for egg tempera3:14

    Discover a very limited yet effective egg tempera palette, featuring titanium white, cadmium reds and yellows, iron oxide red, vermilion, cobalt blue, and other toxic pigments to handle safely.

  • The Brushes3:53

    Learn essential brushes for portrait icon painting, including Collins key and synthetic round brushes for faces and clothes, square brushes for gilding and large areas, and controls for base colors.

  • The Boards0:43

    Identify the plywood board prepared with calcium carbonate and rabbit skin glue as the tempera and gold leaf painting surface, and decide to make it yourself or buy it online.

Requirements

  • You will need to have a space with an easel to work on. For this course I use powder pigment with egg tempera solution, but all I teach can be painted with acrylics as well. Oil as a medium is not suitable for this course.
  • You will need a board primed with white rabbit skin gesso.
  • You will need a couple short, round Kolinsky brushes small in size, or some short, round synthetic ones of good quality.
  • A glass to be used as a palette or small plastic cups.

Description

In this course I teach how to paint in the style of the old masters, by painting two portraits of the great painter Sandro Botticelli. I explain the process step by step, from how to do the underpainting on a white gessoed surface, to painting the various layers of shadow and light and thus reveal the volume and beauty of a painted portrait, and to its completion with painting hair and clothes. Along I share information on the appropriate pigments and brushes, and the use and treatment of color. You will understand how the palette of a painter works and what are some best practices when we are in the studio. This course will teach you how to paint amazing portraits by using this technique, and thus enrich your artistic skills. By the end of this course you will be able to understand the concepts of painting in a rich visually style and apply these techniques not only on paintings referring directly to the old masters, but also to your own artistic practice. This course will help you understand what visual interest/richness means when we are painting portraits and give you the keys to achieve this level of expertise yourselves. I use and extensively describe the performance of egg tempera, but this course can be absolutely work perfectly for artists who use acrylics or gouache as their medium.

Who this course is for:

  • For everyone who wants to hone their skills in painting
  • For everyone who wants to learn egg tempera in depth
  • For everyone who wants to understand and get inspiration by the technique of the Rennaissance painters

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