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Figure Painting in Oil in Just 5 Steps

By Andrew Conklin

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
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About this lesson

Andrew Conklin demonstrates painting a live model on a tinted, glue-sized panel: transferring the contour, blocking in shadow shapes with earth colors and a flat brush, then modeling light values up toward the face and finishing with compositional accents.