Oil Painting: Masterful Techniques to Oil Painting, Portrait Painting and Landscape Painting (painting, oil painting, painting for beginners, paint techniques, ... paint, portrait by Judith Ann Miller

Author:Judith Ann Miller [Miller, Judith Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-08T18:30:00+00:00

Making a portrait from a photograph

If you are working on portraiture, your model will certainly feel happier if your image looks like them. The use of a photograph is very useful because even if your model is not present, you will be able to continue to draw the face ready for painting and will have an idea of the textures and the color palette that makes up the skin tones.

If you have taken a photograph or have one that is fairly good quality, draw a grid over it or use your iPad app to draw a grid over the top of the image. Then draw the grid onto your canvas. It won’t matter that you are drawing underneath what will be your oil picture because this drawing helps you to get things accurately drawn. Look at each square of the grid, because what it contains needs to be transferred onto the canvas. Fill out the sketch of each square of your grid with pencil detail so that you can see clearly where each element of the image should be placed. If you get it wrong at this stage, it’s not too drastic as you can make adjustments.

When you are happy that the sketch is accurate, you can start to add color to your image and work your oils into the areas of the image so that they correspond with the colors that are shown in your photograph. Take time over details such as eyes, nose, lips etc. because often you need to apply the oil paints with a palette knife to get realistic rendition of what you are seeing.

Practice your sketches of facial features and you will find that it gets to be second nature. Remember that there are no standard ways to sketch facial features because everyone that you draw will be different. Move on to using charcoal as your base medium as this is what was used by the famous artists of the past.

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