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Final Stages of a Figurative Painting – Painting the Figure – Part 4

Final Stages of a Figurative Painting Painting the Figure – Part 4 Figurative painting has become the main ‘body’…

Painting the Skin Tone Painting the Figure – Part 3 There are many styles, colour palettes and methods…

Painting the Halftones Painting the Figure – Part 2 So, what are halftones in oil painting exactly? After…

Painting the Figure – Part 1 This is actually part of my Siren Series which I am…

The Siren Paintings “You will come to the Siren (paintings) first of all; they bewitch any mortal who…

Final Stages of a Figure Painting in Oils Usually when I’m working on a figure painting in oils,…

Glazing Skin Tones in Oil Painting Glazing skin tones creates a transparent and beautiful glow of realistic looking…

Painting the Flesh Tone After the Verdaccio and going over the figure with Terre Verte, it’s time to start…

Painting the Figure with Terre Verte Terre Verte, or ‘Green Earth’, was commonly used from Medieval Times and…

Painting the Verdaccio What is the Verdaccio? Verdaccio is an Italian term for the greenish-hued underpaintings common to Early Renaissance…

Painting the Imprimatura Ok, so I’ve just completed the burnt umber imprimatura. This is the second part of the figure…

Charcoal Underdrawing for an Oil Painting A charcoal underdrawing is the first stage in my portrait/figure oil painting. In…

Painting a Still Life of Apples I had a commission to paint a still life of apples for a…

Painting the Traditional Way – Part 4 – The Background Sometimes, depending on the composition of the painting,…

Painting the Traditional Way – Part 3 – The Dead Layer Step 4: Refining the underpainting (the anatomy)…

Painting the Traditional Way – Part 2 – The Underdrawing An underdrawing is basically a charcoal or chalk drawing…

Painting the Traditional Way – Part 1 When painting the traditional way, the most important thing to consider is that…