Portrait Painting in Oil Without a Brain
Getting Started
Grid Method
Observational Drawing
Color Mixing and Values
Separating Lights and Shadows
Edges And Planes
Painting with Color
Intermediate Portrait
Advanced Portrait
Drawing
Pastel Portrait
Digital Portrait
Additional Content
An overview of using a limited pallet to create a skin ton chart.
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Shawn Laughlin
5d
These are the skin tones I came up with. I don't know if its my monitor, but the light looks a little cool to me. I went from warm shadows to cooler lights. I tried to keep the colors close to what you are mixing with your limited palette. The lightest light is probably way to light, but I think the rest is ok.
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4d
should work. I think.
Christina Michaels
20d
late coming!
Christina Michaels
20d
You are simply a genius at what you do11
@dargretchen
22d
Morgan - you are absolutely brilliant and your sense of humor makes my day! These videos are pure gems! Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing your amazing talent!
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21d
Thanks! I didn't feel like I was being my funny self. I looked at the footage and seemed to serious.
Ignacio Nicholson
24d
Really helpful lessons! I've always struggled with knowing how to adjust my colors but only being able to go "up or down, left or right" with a limited palette helped a lot. That said, this was still a lot of work and I feel I need to give the cool palette another go. Thanks,
@mnk
1mo
Good exercise to get familiar with the palette. I think everything might be a tad too cool on mine and the split between shadow and light slightly too big, or is it good enough to start the painting?
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1mo
sorry, haven't had power for days. should be okay but your reflected light could be slightly lighter.
@micheledavisart
1mo
Fun exercise! I had to keep checking my color values with my grayscale chart — turning my photo into black and white helped me see where I was off.
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1mo
looks job!
Gaye Sekula
2mo
Debra Rank
2mo
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2mo
great job!
@mahatsu
2mo
Thank you for introducing Ketchup and Mustard method. Simpler method for complicated matters.
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2mo
great job!
@jsheffie
2mo
Hi Morgan, what is in the white bucket that you occasionally dip your brush into? I assume its a mineral spirit or a medium. At first I thought it might be water, but the internet suggests otherwise. I bought the stuff off of your materials list. I have Gamsol Mineral Spirits, Walnet Oil Medium, and Walnut Alkyd Medium.... Whats in the bucket?
( I think I remember you saying that you did not like Spirits as much )
Thanks, Morgan ( I am enjoying the lessons )
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2mo
It's the plain walnut oil. I buy it off amazon in gallon jug.
@andreat
2mo
Well this was a challenge but a good challenge. So glad I only have 4 colors to mix with. Now I know why I was overwhelmed with a full palette. Totally a much better approach to work with a limited palette. I am willing to remix if needed. Thanks SOOOO much for your help!
@andreat
2mo
Here is my second attempt at the warm flesh tones. I think the first set is too warm and too dark in value.
Susan Pennington
2mo
Oh my, I found this difficult as my first mix of alizarin crimson and white ended up too pink and stayed that way when I added the ochre light to it. Reworked my several of the light values in the attached to try and get rid of the reddish hue. This photograph is a bit misleading as to color as it's taken under a yellowish light. The background was actually grey mixed media paper but it and the colors appear more yellow. So I learned its important to get the initial mixture right tending to orange instead of red.
Susan Pennington
2mo
Here's a new picture taken in natural light
Shelly England
2mo
I was going for tight on the B&W but might be a little too tight between shadow and light
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2mo
On the black and white scale your halftone and reflective light are too close. You need a little more contrast between the two to have proper shadow-light separation.
@szokebarnabas
2mo
Skin mixing chart practice
Michèle Girard
2mo
I'm learning so much! Thanks in advance for your input.
@tclark5
2mo
Work in progress. Great Class!
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2mo
looks good. you might be able to slightly lighter in reflective light in shadow
@rdj8564
3mo
It looks like I could maybe add more black to the reflection and to the average shadow.
@rdj8564
3mo
One other thing. The colors I used to make the scale were the colors that you used in the first lesson and in the last lesson trying to match the colors of the picture of the portrait that we’re going to draw.
@noelhenry5000
3mo
I find that my average light is too close to my half tone. I was having a hard time remixing to get the right color.
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3mo
It's overall a pretty good job on the mixtures.I see what you mean mostly on the first row of warmer mixture of the light. Your halftone could go just a bit darker by adding black and a touch of alizarin. I know at first it may feel weird to have so few colors but it will get simpler the more realize you can't stray too far from what is needed since it's just adjusting the amounts of the 4 colors to get it.
tina boroviak
3mo
My colour mixing exercise. Ended up adjusting the average shadow to be less red.
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3mo
good on the light skin tones. Your shadow tones are perhaps too close in value. You could lighten the reflective light value
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