Portrait painting from life, underpainting

Portrait painting from life, underpainting

In this short portrait portrait painting from life, underpainting, demonstration video I only use raw umber.

If you have the opportunity to paint from observation you should do so as much as possible.

To begin with, I give the entire canvas a very thin wash of raw umber with standard painting medium.

Then, using a flat synthetic brush I put down the first contours. I determine where the eyes, nose and mouth are.

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Skin colours in portrait painting

Still from the video tutorial
Still from the video tutorial

Every so often I get the question of what colours skin tone is composed. I can not possibly answer that question because every complexion has its own composition.

Portrait of a little girlIn the two in-depth video tutorials I show exactly which colour and in what quantity in the different parts of the face, I used to paint the portrait.

 

 

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Portrait painting and filming

making a video tutorial
Editing the long tutorial video

It happens to everyone once and a while: the loss of documents in the computer. Five years ago I almost finished the editing of my third long video demonstration. By bad luck, I lost all the work. I was defeated and angry at myself for disconnecting the hard drive from my computer without the necessary precautions. Months and months of work lost! A negligence which I had to atone a longtime. Eventually the footage could be retrieved by a specialist company in Madrid, but the editing had gone forever. I am taking charge of the project again. From now I will be spending all available time behind the screens. I hope to finish the project by summer. I will keep you posted.

Stills from the video
Stills from the video
Stills from the video
Stills from the video
Stills from the video
Stills from the video