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| Subject: | Re: Figure Painting - basic kit |  |
| Date: | Jun 25, 2006 |
| From: | Adrian Knight | |
Hi
When it comes to painting with oils can I recommend you read up on Shep Paine's techniques for faces,hands,hair. He recommends a very limited palette using gold ochre,burnt sienna,titanium white with the merest hints of alizarin crimson. If only I could find the damn book to tell you the title! But the essence is keep it simple blend the colours on the model and avoid black. Use the best quality sable brushes you can get ( Windsor and Newton series 7 ) And practice practice practice. I use a white undercoat then an acrylic flesh wash over that as a base.Once it's dry if you mess up you can take the oils off with a touch of white spirit and start again.
Squeeze the oils out onto paper and let the excess oil be absorbed and use white spirit sparingly to thin them - this gives a lovely flat finish.
Hope these ramblings are of help - I've shoved a pic of one of my efforts with the post to prove it works! |
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 | Figure Painting - basic kit - Paul A. Owen - May 11, 2006 |
| . . . Try this article from Missing Links - Steve Kubik - May 11, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: I forgot about these - Paul A. Owen - May 11, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: I forgot about these - Andrew Herbert - May 11, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Try this article from Missing Links - John - May 11, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Newspaper tip - Paul A. Owen - May 12, 2006 |
| . . . Paxton palette - Mike Bedard - May 12, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Paxton palette - Paul A. Owen - May 12, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Oils and more... - Andrew Herbert - May 13, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Paxton palette - Mike Bedard - May 13, 2006 |
| . . . flesh paint - Mark Bannerman - Jun 23, 2006 |
| . . . . . . flesh paint PART 2 [IMG] - Mark Bannerman - Jun 23, 2006 |
| . . . all i use.... - Glenn Bartolotti - Jun 24, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Figure Painting - basic kit [IMG] - Adrian Knight - Jun 25, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Found the book! - Adrian Knight - Jun 25, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Figure Painting - basic kit - Chris Oldfield - Jul 23, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Figure Painting - basic kit - Chris Oldfield - Jul 23, 2006 |
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