Oil Painting: Girl Portrait : Oil Painting: Finishing Touches

When oil painting a portrait, block in start working in color against color in order to finalize the picture. Learn some finishing touches when oil painting a portrait from a professional artist in this free painting video.

Expert: Cody Davis
Bio: Cody Davis earned his second-degree black belt in 2006. He is a great teacher of the Shaolin/Kenpo arts. Sifu Davis has been a student of the arts for more than 13 years.
Filmmaker: MAKE | MEDIA

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• oil painting
• painting
• painting portraits

[FORMETOKNOWONLY]

Where are the mid tones and the darks? It looks extremely flat.

[TheJaeger100]

I can see that this artist has studied the painting techniques of the masters. They would be glad to know that someone has understood and can implement with superb skill the foundations of good painting; draughtsmanship, composition, colour balance, colour harmony, imprimatura, chiaroscuro etc.- this man has it all in abundance. He'll get to the Louvre one day. All he has to do is remember to take enough money with him to pay at the door.

[TheJaeger100]

I can see that this artist has studied the painting techniques of the masters. They would be glad to know that someone has understood and implement with superb skill the foundations of good painting; draughtsmanship, composition, colour balance, colour harmony, imprimatura, chiaroscuro etc.- this man has it all in abundance. He'll get to the Louvre one day. All he has to do is remember to take enough money with him to pay at the door.

[TheJaeger100]

I can see that this artist has studied the painting techniques of the masters. They would be glad to know that someone has understood and implement with suuuuuuuuperb skill the foundations of good painting; draughtsmanship, composition, colour balance, colour harmony, imprimatura, chiaroscuro etc.- this man has it all in abundance. He'll get to the Louvre one day. All he has to do is remember to take enough money with him to pay at the door.

[cinestar2]

how can one person possibly upload 138597  videos??????????

[keckvan66]

Ahumm... not so convincing to me... very clinical, static

[loldoggydog22]

@trooubermensch i seen ur paintin fam, soz buh u are terrible u got waaay to much an ego, u need to learn a bit more first before sayin tings like dat to peeps

[TheDognamedblue]

thanks for sharing

[MegaHuddleston]

hey trooubermensch, go Fuck yourself buddy, I've been a professional for 3 years, every artist has their own interpretation of doing things, you say he's a Hack, your a fucking Heckler, and yeah She does look like the picture from what I'm seeing, and there ain't nothing wrong with blocking in colors, it's not always to fix a mistake, and yes you can paint over to cover a mistake, just make sure your using the same tone or flush it out first with white, I make over 400,000 a year I know.

[trooubermensch]

The videos may be "decent" (I wouldn't exactly say good), but the paintings suck. He's totally going about it the wrong way too, you don't paint to cover up mistakes, which is what he's really doing when he says "blocking." What a hack, she doesn't even look like the picture. You should see the video I'm currently uploading - that's how you paint a mother fucking portrait in oils. It's called "Portrait of Sarah in Oil (Part I) - Kyle "Sardonicus" Amadeus Stanfield." Look for it in 24 hours.