Oil Painting Essentials by Gregg Kreutz

Oil Painting Essentials by Gregg Kreutz

Author:Gregg Kreutz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Published: 2016-05-23T16:00:00+00:00


3: Here’s a close-up of the starting edges, the hair and arm. Note how they are both in full local color—not middletone, not highlight—but what I deemed to be the model’s essential flesh color.

4: Since intensity comes forward, that which is most lit will often appear nearest to us. Here I used that optical phenomenon to bring the near breast closer.

CHALLENGES

The challenges of painting the figure are many and varied. To meet them, the artist shouldn’t feel that massive anatomy study and muscle memorization is required. For one thing, painters would do well to be wary of any time-consuming activities that keep them from painting. I’m not sure why, but oil painters seem to be particularly susceptible to getting sidetracked by preliminary activities. Things like taking anatomy classes, arranging color charts, doing complicated value studies, reading how-to books (oh wait…skip that last one)—all of these tempt the artist away from the easel and keep him or her from directly meeting the challenges.

In this section, I’ll show you some of the specific difficulties figure painters encounter.



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