Let’s create some foreground meadows. I continue working with the same colors we have used before, rotating them throughout the composition. Why? To maintain COLOR HARMONY. Going back to the meadows, the paint should be quite liquid so that it flows and the strokes are rigid. We vary the shades of the meadows to avoid…
Let’s start with the Female Figure. We’re going to create a color in medium tones, practically going towards the light of the skin color. We’ll work with Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Naples Yellow, Burnt Sienna, and Cadmium Red. With these, we’ll create the skin color. In this case, the skin color we’re going for is…
We have a freshly started sky. Add and create different warm tones and distribute them in different sectors of the sky. The important thing here is the technique we apply, one of the most important and that you have to master NO MATTER WHAT. The gradient. I’m going to start blending a bit because the…
Let’s work with the palette. Let’s prepare the color. We’re going to make a sort of wine stain below the palette. A very dark red. Always leave space on the palette. I’m leaving small remains in case I need to touch up each mixture again. Until the end of the painting, I try to have…
Hello! Today I bring you a very powerful technique for advanced sketching. It is a traditional technique using THREADS. Why threads? Because if I start drawing directly on the canvas, it will be filled with graphite, and that will bother me later when erasing it. It will also be troublesome when it’s time to paint….
If you feel afraid or insecure when sketching for your work, or if you feel that you don’t have drawing skills and that ends up ruining all your work… The technique I’m about to teach you will serve as a guide throughout your sketch and will allow you to maintain the necessary perspective and balance…
In this article, I’m going to show you the step by step to perform the color mixing for fair skin with their respective highlights and shadows. I will also reveal the system I use to make the color always look and feel real and avoid working with a tone that can ruin your work. My…
In this new post, I will show you step by step the FORMULA to contrast faces in your works. When we consider painting a portrait we must consider the background we are going to do. If the work is going to focus specifically on the face we must make a very simple background so that…
