An Introduction to Oil Painting

An Introduction to Oil Painting (DK Art School) /by Ray Smith. Whether you've taken art classes or never held a brush before, An Introduction to Oil Painting will show you everything you need to know about working in this challenging -- but rewarding -- medium.

An introduction to the essential techniques of oil painting in a full range of media. It provides fully annotated, photographic sequences to guide the reader from the first strokes to the final composition, and full-size reproductions allow closer inspections of great masterworks.

1564583724Whether you've taken art classes or never held a brush before, An Introduction to Oil Painting will show you everything you need to know about working in this challenging -- but rewarding -- medium. Easy-to-follow projects, shown as they were created, teach the essentials while inspiring the student to tackle increasingly complex techniques. Each volume of The DK Art School series focuses on a specific art medium and subject, so you can choose precisely what you want to learn. When complete, the series will offer the widest choice of specific subjects -- from acrylic figure to oil portrait, and from pastel still life to watercolor landscape. Build your own private Art School in your home library. ...

Margaret Carter Baumgaertner - Painting the Corporate Portrait series covers everything you need to know about painting a corporate head and shoulder portrait and a three-quarter portrait. A special one-hour bonus on painting the hands in included. Introduction to the Corporate Portrait. Oil paints, palette, and other materials. The Seven Step Method of painting. Color theory: Mixing flesh tones, correcting mud and chalkiness. Setting Up the Model: Positioning lighting, background and model pose. Painting the Head and Shoulders Corporate Portrait Drawing: Measuring the head, "brush-sizing," construction of the "cartoon", silhouette and shadow shapes

In this DVD, Dylan discusses the fundamentals of landscape matte painting by demonstrating how to design a shot, both from a plate and from scratch. Intended for the beginning to intermediate matte painter, the quick studies in this lecture explore the necessary color and composition techniques for creating convincing landscapes.

In this DVD, Dylan discusses the fundamentals of cityscape matte painting by demonstrating how to design a shot, both from a plate and from scratch. Intended for the beginning to intermediate matte painter, the quick studies in this lecture explore the necessary color and composition techniques for creating dynamic cityscapes. Learn how to lead the viewer’s eye through a composition by manipulating light, color and line.

Maxon Bodypaint 3D has become the standard 3D painting tool used in the film and game texture pipelines. Renowned for its stability and performance, Bodypaint excels in the arena of integration with 3rd party 3D and 2D applications like Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop. Bodypaint's extensive toolset including a powerful projection painting engine has made it the tool of choice for painting textures on a 3D surface.

In this introduction to photorealistic texture painting, Justin Holt discusses how a trained eye for detail and keen sense of observation are essential attributes to being a successful texture painter in the the feature film industry. Using BodyPaint and Photoshop, Justin will demonstrate some of his easy to follow techniques and tricks of the trade in order to paint proper color, bump, displacement, specular and opacity maps. But more importantly, Justin will go through essential principles to maintaining a non-destructive workflow while painting textures to ensure a maximum amount of control and flexibility for any revisions and changes that may be requested after the maps are completed in a production environment. Additionally, Justin will complete the lecture with a quick run through in Modo to show how to quickly and easily generate polished renders that showcase all of the finely tuned texture work.

The subject of the first lesson in this video is flowers in a glass; in it we’ll be using all eight of our colors. Remembering to “Have Some More Fun” we’ll start with a dark background this time and learn about painting flowers. With tips about painting back to front and how to paint glass- It’s easier than you think! Lastly we discover a trick from the “littlest room in the house”. In the second lesson we go the Irelands Balanchine Castle to a beautiful scene of a tree lined country lane and a flower filled meadow. We also learn a short history lesson about the names of the colors we’re using.

The subject of the first lesson in this video is flowers in a glass; in it we’ll be using all eight of our colors. Remembering to “Have Some More Fun” we’ll start with a dark background this time and learn about painting flowers. With tips about painting back to front and how to paint glass- It’s easier than you think! Lastly we discover a trick from the “littlest room in the house”. In the second lesson we go the Irelands Balanchine Castle to a beautiful scene of a tree lined country lane and a flower filled meadow. We also learn a short history lesson about the names of the colors we’re using.

In this DVD, Dylan discusses the fundamentals of landscape matte painting by demonstrating how to design a shot, both from a plate and from scratch. Intended for the beginning to intermediate matte painter, the quick studies in this lecture explore the necessary color and composition techniques for creating convincing landscapes. Learn how to lead the viewer s eye through a composition by manipulating light, color and line. Six different paintings are created in a variety of locales and lighting scenarios. From snowy mountains to lush jungles, moody dusk to bright daylight, this DVD offers an exciting look into the art of digital matte painting. Included in this DVD are the original layered Adobe Photoshop files in addition to the original plate photography.