Portrait Painting in Oil Without a Brain

Softening for Realism

Lesson by

Morgan Weistling

inPortrait Painting in Oil Without a Brain

145

Assignments 10

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Softening for Realism

Lesson by

Morgan Weistling

in Portrait Painting in Oil Without a Brain

145

Assignments 10

Downloads 1

There is no assignment for this lesson other than to post your progress here.

Michèle Girard

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I can only work on this on weekends so it is taking me a while. It's very challenging. The face is coming along but the shirt looks very messy, I scraped off the background because I didn't like what I did. I can't get the color of the blue/green ribbons for the medals unless I add the cobalt blue to my palette? I can see a spot on the neck that I need to fix. By now all the mixes are dried in the little cups so I will have to mix everything again. Any pointers for next weekend's session?

Rachel Dawn Owens

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Wow! This is beautiful!!

@szokebarnabas

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27d

Softening for Realism

@aboulabs

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29d

It might be the glare but it looks better in reality.

Morgan Weistling

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29d

There is a some deviation from the reference going on here. I need to get you to see where you could get a more accurate version of her. Take the reference photo and put it next to your painting. Use rapid eye movement back and forth looking at just one part at a time. Do the eyes first. Once you see the difference, make a mental note and quickly fix it to match the photo closer. Do that with each feature. Use small enough brush to make you draw , not paint.

tina boroviak

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1mo

Moved onto this intermediate stage because I needed a little break from finalizing the first portrait. Still working on edges and shapes. Happy to hear any feedback.

Morgan Weistling

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1mo

You are not squinting for your values, or shadow patterns. Your shadows are too light and there is not enough contrast between light and shadow. Look the attached shot. Use rapid eye movement back and forth between your painting and the photo. Look at each part individually to check. Look at the nose in your painting then quickly look at the nose in the photo. back and forth. compare. train yourself to see where you are off and then fix it. Squint when you do this too.

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Morgan Weistling

Award winning fine artist represented by @legacygalleryart in Scottsdale AZ