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Oil Painting for Beginners: Expressive Portraits

Oil Painting for Beginners: Expressive Portraits

£48.00Price

Learn to draw and paint expressive portraits in real-time with Liam Kelleher. In this 4 hour workshop you will learn how to get to grips with the most mysterious of painting mediums: Oils. In Part 1, Liam will show you how to prepare a board, showcase all of the tools, pigments and mediums that you can use and how to transfer a sketch to a wood panel or canvas.  Liam breaks down the misconceptions surround the medium while showing you how to get started with mixing skin tones and looking at the relationships between colours in order to create harmony and colour contrasts. In Part 2, Liam reveals how to prepare the surface for a new layer of paint, how to blend colour effectively and also how abstraction can be a powerful tool to creat appeal in an expressive portrait. 

 

PART 1:

Introduction

My journey with oils

Surfaces

How to prime a surface

Transferring a sketch

Laying a ground 

Oil Paint overview

Brushes

Oil Painting mediums

Painting: Establishing darks

Painting: Blocking in

Painting: Blending

 

Part 2:

Painting: Oiling out the board

Painting: Refining the face

Painting: Refining the hair

Painting: Abstracting the background 

 

BONUS MATERIALS

Getting started – Quick guide to getting started on the course

Materials List – including links to products

Reference Images

Artwork - PDF of the sketch which can be used to print and transfer to the board

Artwork – PDF of the final version of the painting 

 

 

 

Liam has a warm, down-to-earth approach to teaching, with countless years honing his approach in the classroom for over 5 years in private classes and at a college and university level. The course is well suited for absolute beginners as well as more advanced artists looking to familiarise themselves with a structured approach and process that will help them realise consistently excellent portraits.

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