The Incredible Way to Paint Skin in a Portrait Painting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2023
- #portraitpainting #portraitart
The Incredible Way to Paint Vibrant Skin Colours in a Portrait Painting.
In this Alla Prima portrait painting tutorial, realist Painter Alex Tzavaras shows you an incredible way to paint skin in a portrait.
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When we're portrait painting in oil, we're presented with a wide variety of skin tones. When we're mixing skin tones, we don't actually need to match any of the colours we see precisely. Instead, we need to match the variety itself, between warmer and cooler, more intense or more nuetral skin tones. So if you want to learn how to mix skin tones, you need to think of them in terms of their colour temperature relationships.
If when we're mixing skin tones, we only need to match the relationships between the colours and not the colours themselves, this means we can push the colour. We can increase the colour intensity of certain notes or even invent colours. In this way we can create more colourful vibrant skin tones. As long as your skin tones are the correct value and colour temperature, your portrait painting will still appear lifelike
Alex Tzavaras is a contemporary realist artist offering portrait painting and alla prima oil painting tutorials. Alex teaches the traditional oil painting techniques artists used to draw and paint from life up until the start of the 20th century.
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I have painted all my life, but I never learned as much and as fast as after viewing these videos by Alex!
Thank you very much Frank!
12:47 🥱the model fell asleep. Nice painting, thanks a lot ❤❤❤
You're welcome, glad you liked it!
It's impressive how much the eyes can bring it all together.
The smoothness and softness of your painting is just amazing. Your method of color mixing and blending is soo unique
Thank you very much!
That green between the core shadow and terminator line is an amazing trick to turn the form. I see it a lot in Sargents paintings.
This is why camera photos will always feel "flat"
We create an "illusion" of our subject and connect differently with our subject and the viewer.
Amazing this skill we have.
Nice work!
Thank you Theodora!
Love your approach on this one! It looks more modern than the other portraits you have done in your channel. Thanks for this valuable lesson, Alex!
Thank you Jaycee!
Love this! This is like an all-day workshop concentrated into a 16 minute explosion of information! Thank you!
(I noticed the model started nodding off around the 12:10 mark. I guess he posed for longer than 16 minutes!)
Thank you Tim! Glad this was helpful.
amazing!
Fantastic lesson! I love how you give solution to the skin. Congratulations and above all thank you very much for so much advice.👏👏
Thank you Monica! Glad you like it.
Incredible. Love your explanations thank you!
Thank you Clare! Glad it was helpful
i like this about color reationships must learn more about it thanks alex
Thank you Kaj!
Amazing ❤
This video means alot to me and really helps me add some fun colors to black skin that I didn’t know would work! Thank you very much and you got a new subscriber! ❤
Thank you very much Jeb! Glad you like it.
if the goal is not realism, but rather experimental personal expressionism, then what's to teach. excellent video.
fantastic
Thanks Alex..
Fabulous really fabulous!! 🙌🤩🙌 Thanks so much 🙏🙏. Happy new year Maestro!!
Thank you Joann! Happy New year to you too.
You are such an awesome painter!
Thank you!
amazing portrait! you^re a very advanced painter.
`Thank you!
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Thanks!
Fantastic video Alex. Wonder why these last videos have so little views, they’re top quality. Regarding temperature, I was looking at some modern masters (Munch, Picasso etc), and even in their most ‘simple’ paintings (like those ‘geometric’ picasso portraits), every colour - even when appearing just out of the tube - has always some warmer and cooler version of the same hue, of the same value of course, plus some touches of grey/complementary which blend in unnoticed because they have the same value.
Interesting. I've never noticed that about Picasso's work. I shall have to look more closely. And yes, I've noticed that about my videos recently. I think the algorithm has changed to focus more on audience retention. This is something I've always thought about, by trying to explain quite complicated stuff as succinctly as possible, but I guess I'm going to have to work more on my delivery and editing if I want more views?
Thank you for all you do! I was wondering if you would ever be open to teaching a short lesson on painting hands? This is something that I think a lot of young artists could benefit from.
Thank you very much Johanna! Yes, I will do a video on painting hands at some point in the near future.
Super cool video Alex! are you worried about the problems about Alizarin Crimson? Or do you use a permanent verison? Cheers!
If I have a question about your patreon were is the best place to write to you?
Thank you Frentis. I use Michael Harding Alizarin Crimson which he claims has an ok lightfastness. I'm yet to experience any problems with it. He has also formulated "Alizarin Claret" which has a better lightfastness?
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting Thank you for the answer! I'm very curious to try Alizarin, so I might give Hardings a try.
Beautiful work. What mixing medium are you using to work with? Linseed, stand? 🙏
Thank you! I didn't use any medium, just the paint straight out of the tube. I occasionally use a medium when I come back to a painting after it has dried, I made another video on mediums here th-cam.com/video/22zHMjpdK2Y/w-d-xo.html
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting thank you for the reply! Cool! Thought the paint spread pretty smoothly for being straight out of tube. I will check it out as soon as I can. Thanks again!
Love your channel! Are you worried about the lightfastness of Alizarin Crimson?
Thank you very much! I use Michael Harding Alizarin Crimson which he claims has an ok lightfastness. I'm yet to experience any problems with it. He has also formulated "Alizarin Claret" which apparently has a better lightfastness?
How long do you typically leave your ground to dry before you begin mapping out your model?
I few minutes, I wipe it back with a paper towel to dry it. I don't like it too wet is it slips around and makes a mess when you paint onto it.
Can you do a lesson on color vibration? That would be interesting, I think, and also helpful.
Here is another video I made on achieving vibrant colour th-cam.com/video/vIQR5A7fdY0/w-d-xo.html
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting , thank you!
please do some full-body painting videos!
I will probably do some figure painting tutorials in future, tho I don't think the TH-cam guideline allow nudity? So they may have to appear on my Patreon channel?
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPaintingI think, It doesn't need to be 100% naked, the model can dress on. The pant is alright for the male model, for female I think any clothes that would help avoid nudity is ok. I personally just want to see how you apply your methods on the figure painting. I think it's also helpful for many people who are struggling through this subject.
Why is munsell colour chart not used anymore?
Some artists may still use it, but it is completely unnecessary? However, it does provides quite a good diagram for explaining the three main properties of colour, value, hue and chroma. I personally don't the term chroma. I find it a bit too much like jargon. I prefer the term saturation, or even better intensity, as they all mean the same thing. They describe the degree to which a colour moves from grey to purer colour straight out of the tube,.which I talk about a lot in this video. I reckon it would be impossible to try to use the Munsell colour chart to match your colours if you are painting from life, from a model or plein air. It's too complicated and you just don't have time. Once you realise that you actually need to match colours perfectly, but instead you only need to match the relationships between the three properties, value, hue i.e. temperature and intensity in order for you colours to appear lifelike, it will make mixing colour so much easier.
hello! for some reason i can’t contact you for a commission as it says the captcha is invalid (i tried tens of times redoing it), could you fix this issue? thank you :)
I shall speak to my web developer and get it fixed. Thank you for letting me know. In the mean time if you want to message me, you can contact me through my ig account instagram.com/alex_tzavaras/
this is acrylic colours?
Oil
Oils. But the principles covered in this video, of temperature and intensity relationships and pushing the colour apply to any medium if you're working in colour.
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Not realized that this orange shirt looks like jail clothes?.... Ooops
It's a civilian shirt.
Spoken like a true inbred