Chris Saper | Runtime (125 min)
Follow along with Chris Saper step-by-step in this video on portrait painting in cool light, as she demonstrates essential portrait techniques for lighting your subject, achieving accurate proportions, and painting features, along with easy-to-follow instruction on getting great skin tones, shadows and highlights. You’ll learn oil painting techniques for color mixing, composition, brushstrokes, blending and more as you paint a stunning portrait reminiscent of the masters, giving you the knowledge you need to create your own oil portraits!
Features
- Step-by-step art lessons showing how to paint a portrait
- Oil painting techniques for color mixing, brushstrokes, blending, and more
- Great instruction for getting the technical side of a painting down: composition, achieving accurate proportions, and lighting
Oils
- Alizarin Crimson Permanent
- Asphaltum (or Burnt Umber)
- Brilliant Yellow White
- Cadmium Orange
- Cadmium Red Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Caput Mortuum (or mix of Flake White, Ivory Black & Alizarin Crimson)
- Cerulean Blue
- Flake White
- Flesh (or mix of Yellow Ochre, Flake White & Cadmium Red Light)
- Foundation Greenish
- Indian Yellow
- Indigo
- Ivory Black
- Monochrome Tint Warm
- Naples Yellow Light
- Permanent Rose
- Phthalo Green
- Portland Gray Medium (or mix of Black and Flake White)
- Radiant Blue
- Radiant Magenta
- Radiant Violet
- Raw Sienna
- Raw Umber (Grumbacher)
- Transparent Earth Red (or Burnt Sienna)
- Ultramarine Blue
- Vermilion (or Cadmium Scarlet or Cadmium Red Light)
- Violet Gray
- Yellow Ochre
Surface
- Canvas
Other
- Oleo Gel (medium)
- Palette
- Palette knife
- Paper towels
- Pencil
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Nora 10/24/2017
Olga 10/13/2017
Laurie 9/23/2017
Carolyn 7/29/2017
Lynn 5/17/2017
I've learned so much about portrait painting from Chris Saber's workshops that any video I've seen yet.
DALE 5/17/2017
Lynn 9/30/2016
outstanding! As I've started a portrait oil painting class, direction has been very poor, so in searching found your video which has been so very helpful!
Debbie 12/30/2013
This was an excellent video.!!!! I appreciated her skill and the way she explained her methods and reasoning behind each stroke. It was a huge boost to my confidence for painting portraits. Thank you for this resource.
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Video Includes
- 1 Lesson
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