Article · My Painting Club
Painting advice from John Singer Sargent
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2018
About this lesson
Collects Sargent's studio teaching from his students' accounts and turns it into a working method: charcoal placement, generous paint and sturdy brushes, building from the half-tones, painting wet into wet without medium, and economical strokes, with his portraits as examples.
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