
Learn to paint portraits in oil from scratch, toning the canvas and selecting a palette. Master brushwork across layers, blending to build three-dimensional form, color, value, texture, and facial features.
Learn oil portrait painting from Ashish Kumar Patel, starting with blocking and drawing, applying big color blocks, adding variations of darks, and finishing facial features, hair texture, and details.
Discover the materials required for master portrait painting in oil color series two, including a plastic-coated palette for oil or acrylic, palette knives, brushes, and common oil colors.
Master the color palette and canvas toning for oil portraits, using Liquin fine detail and hues from titanium white to cadmium red deep, alizarin crimson, and transparent red oxide.
Block in the face with simple geometric shapes using a dry brush and little medium, focus on large shapes first with triangulation to map angles, then refine shadows and likeness.
Build the big color pass by applying broad value ranges with black, crimson, white, and green to shape a gray background and define shadows, lights, and hair.
Master skin tones for light and shadow using yellow ochre, cadmium red, and greens; build with big shapes, align eyes and nose, and master values, hue, and chroma.
Explore variation of light from the lightest to darkest values, emphasizing the terminator line. Mix green with red to deepen shadows, using yellow ochre and cadmium red for volume.
Learn to build neck shadows with a single value, then reveal light using layered red, blue, and green tones, with dress greens reflecting onto the skin to create volume.
Explore the second pass in portrait painting to build volume with darker values, refine eye shapes, tear duct, and facial features, and balance hues and edges for three-dimensional form.
Congrats and Welcome to the Best Course on Oil Colour, Easy to Learn from Basics.
To Know More About me Do Check Description and Website of My Profile on Udemy & my YouTube Channel: @ashishpatelatelier
This course is for everyone serious learners.
The portrait is done in Alla Prima style, painted mostly in two sittings.
Getting to know the likeness of model with the help good drawing is explained.
Understanding of light and shadow is explained .
Importance of brush strokes has been given major importance.
The advantages of Portrait painting in Oil Paint include "greater flexibility, richer and denser color, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark".
Edges, types of edges, and edge control to create a focal point, Basic color theory., Value and color relationship using the color wheel and its relationship with the value scale.
Painting the face and figure will ALLWAYS force you to focus hard on accuracy. If the nose is a little to the right, or too long, it will certainly be noticed—as opposed to a missing limb on a tree or the proper length of a house.
I suggest using a plumb line and level when painting portraits and figures, but even with those tools, you will quickly learn to deal with criticism—at the very least, your subject will be there to judge your work!
Portraits are effective and compelling when they tell us something about the person. A good portrait is not just a visual representation of a person; it will also reveal something about the essence of the person
A strong portrait captivates viewers, draws them into the painting, and engages their attention. Such a portrait painting causes the viewer to wonder about the person depicted. In this way a portrait painting or drawing can function as a biography - telling the story of that person's life.
Who this course is for:
Students wanting to learn how to Paint Portrait in oil color
Students willing to put in a couple hours everyday
Students willing to take action and start painting amazing artwork
Students wanting to add another skill to their tool belt
What you’ll learn
Getting To know How To Get The Likeness Of The Model
Mixing Skin Tones With Ease
Understanding the hue ,value , edges, chroma or intensity of color
Anyone can draw or paint if given proper guidance
Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?
should have interest in drawing and painting
Who this course is for:
For beginners to Advanced learners