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Thứ Ba, 31 tháng 3, 2015

Finding A Talented Oil Portrait Artist In Nyc Is Easy

By Iva Cannon


So many people are finding that painting is a way to relax and a means of understanding of whom they are. It is a form of expression and many go on to become well known. There is more than one oil portrait artist in NYC that has began this exact way.

Paintings that are done with oil have been around since the twelfth century in Europe and they were done for decoration purposes. It only became an artist's method around the fifteenth century. It has of late been used in paint on glass animation; this is a way of making animation films by using the slow drying paint on large sheets of glass. A Russian by the name of Aleksandr Petrov has won many awards with this method and has used them in seven different films.

Many say that starting with the hair is the easiest. For the darker tones there is a combination of sienna, cadmium orange, crimson and viridian. For the lighter areas white, yellow ochre, viridian as well as cadium red and permanent green is used. In order to eliminate a yellow or blue tint to blond hair a purple-ish tint is mixed up.

In Medieval times linseed oil was not added as it would crack and darken as well as taking too long a time to dry properly. The properties that were used where pine nut, hemp seed as well as walnut, caster and poppy oils. Once these began to thicken and became resinous they were added as a varnish ensuring that the painting was protected from the elements. With the addition of a yellow pigment it was used as an alternative to gilding or gold leafing.

His realistic painting in oil is an eleven day workshop and starts on the third of August 2015. This class will help one to use tactical thinking as well as getting to know different techniques. One will be shown how to paint a life like painting, as well as learning how to add one's own style. A field trip to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Arts will take place on the eighth where one can examine many of the greatest paintings. These will then be broken down and analyzed and students will be told how they inspired Marvin to develop his own technique.

She gives classes of Painting the Portrait and the Figure in oil from life. The student will work from a live model and in the classic tradition each will learn the principles of painting and figures. One will be shown how to get a true likeness as well as an understanding of light. Creating that three dimensional illusion will be taught as well.

For artists that prefer their whites to be vibrant they would rather use the poppy and safflower oils as they leave a much lighter shade then when using linseed oil. Heat or steam is used to development and treat the different oils so that fewer impurities are found. In some instances certain additives are added so that the chemical properties can be changed.

All portrait paintings can be done by full length, half length as well as bust or just the head. There is one that the face of the model is not shown at all. This was done by Andrew Wyeth in 1948 of a crippled girl who had turned her back on the artist. Others are done with a full face view or three quarter view depending on the artist's version.




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