Oil Painting: Girl Portrait

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Oil painting is an artistic process that involves using pigments bound with a medium of drying oil. Learn to paint the portrait of a young girl from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting Materials
Oil brushes and paints are a few materials used for painting portraits. Learn more about oil painting materials from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Adding a 2nd Hair Level
When oil painting a portrait, block in the paint and continue to paint with the grain of the hair in order to add definition. Learn more about adding a second level of hair when oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Adding a 3rd Hair Level
When oil painting a portrait, use darker colors to add a third level of hair in order to add texture. Learn more about adding a third level of hair when oil painting a portrait from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Adding a 4th Hair Level
When oil painting a portrait, use burnt umber and burnt sienna to create a halfway tone that's suitable for adding depth to the hair. Learn more about adding a fourth level of hair when oil painting a portrait from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Adding Highlights
When oil painting a portrait, use a brush to add highlights in order to make the image pop and come to life. Learn more about adding highlights when oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Adjusting the Chin
When oil painting a portrait, blend colors to create the right skin tone for adjusting the chin. Learn more about adjusting the chin and oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Adjusting the Nose
Use white color in order to adjust the appearance of the nose when oil painting a portrait. Learn more about adjusting the nose from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Blending
Blend around the edges of the portrait when oil painting. Learn more about blending and oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Blending Colors
Slightly moisten the flat brush before blending the colors of an oil painting portrait. Learn more about blending colors from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Blending Shadows
Use a clean dry brush when oil painting a portrait in order to blend colors and create shadows. Learn more about blending shadows from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Blending Tones on the Blouse
Blend tones to create more shape on the blouse when oil painting a portrait. Learn more about blending tones on the blouse from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Cheeks & Forehead
Create a lighter skin tone when oil painting the cheeks and forehead of a girl's portrait. Learn more about oil painting the cheeks and forehead from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Corneas
Use Thalo green mixed with cobalt blue when oil painting the corneas of a girl's portrait. Learn more about painting the corneas or a girl's portrait from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Creating Shadows
Add a little cobalt blue to create shadows when oil painting the portrait of a girl. Learn more about creating shadows from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Creating the Blouse
Use Thalo green when oil painting the blouse in order to add dimension to the portrait. Learn more about creating the blouse from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Darkening the Blouse
When oil painting a portrait, mix Thalo green and burnt umber to darken areas around the blouse. Learn more about darkening the blouse from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Defining the Edges of the Blouse
When oil painting a portrait, define the edges of the blouse in order to add dimension. Learn more about defining the edges of the blouse from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Defining the Eyelids
When oil painting a portrait, add a pink tone to the bottom of the eyes in order to add shape. Learn more about defining the eyelids from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Defining the Eyes
Shifting and resizing the pupil, when oil painting, is a useful way of defining the eyes of a portrait. Learn more tips for defining the eyes from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Defining the Face
When oil painting a portrait, add highlights as needed in order to define the face. Learn more about defining the face and oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Detailing the Hair
Incorporate individual strands as much as possible in order to add texture to the hair when oil painting a portrait. Learn more about detailing hair from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Examining From a Distance
Take a few steps back from the oil painting portrait every ten to fifteen minutes to get a different perspective. Learn more about examining oil painting portraits from a distance from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Eye Gradation
Use white paint when oil painting the eyes of a girl's portrait to add gradation. Learn more about eye gradation and oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Eyebrows
When oil painting a portrait, use burnt umber and raw sienna to adjust the eyebrows and create more definition. Learn more about painting eyebrows from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Oil Painting: Eyelids
Use a little bit of thinner on the brush when oil painting the eyelids of a portrait. Learn more about creating eyelids from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Summary: The art of painting with oils has it's roots in the Middle Ages, as oil paint was used as a more functional and durable replacement for tempera paints. While oil-based painting is mentioned as far back as 1125 BCE, the medium gained popularity with 15th century painters in northern Europe, and the glossy finish of the paintings helped to define the style. Italian Renaissance painters soon began working with oils, and oils have been the preferred medium of painters for centuries since.

In this free painting video a professional artist, Cody Davis, will demonstrate how to oil paint the portrait of a young girl. Davis will begin by explaining the materials, paints and tools that he'll be using. He'll then begin explaining the process of tracing and paint mixing in order to begin creating this wonderful work of art. Davis will demonstrate several useful painting techniques for creating all aspects of the portrait. He'll demonstrate how to: paint the eyes, create skin tones, shade, add highlights, blend colors, define facial features as well as how to soften the edges. After creating the face, eyes, nose, hair and blouse, he'll then begin demonstrating how to fine tune the details of the painting in order to make it come alive. Watch these videos and learn to oil paint a portrait today.

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Expert: Cody is an artist with over 35 years experience in painting with oil, watercolors and acrylics. He has a Fine Arts degree with honors from the University of Texas at Austin as well as over 12 years teaching, painting and drawing in the classroom. Mr. Davis draws and paints subjects like landscapes, still life, animals, figures, portraits, floral, oriental, and abstracts. He is also a graphic designer and illustrator. His graphics and illustration web site with portfolio is at: http://marketingdesignsolutions.net.