The Most important Thing I know About Oil Painting - How to See Values

SIMPLIFY Drawing and Painting
SIMPLIFY Drawing and Painting
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In this oil painting tutorial, realist artist Alex Tzavaras shares the most important thing he knows about painting. The breakthrough that transformed his work, enabling him to achieve a greater degree of realism and progress from beginner to becoming a professional portrait painter.

How to see light and dark tonal values

Tonal alues, the degrees of lightness and darkness that describe an object’s 3D form, are one of the fundamental principles of representational art. Understanding how values work is essential if you want to produce lifelike oil paintings.

In this video, Alex completes an alla prima oil painting of a plaster cast, using a monochrome or grisaille technique. He demonstrates his approach to values and shows you how to avoid the common mistakes we make when working with values in painting.

Alex Tzavaras is a contemporary realist artist offering portrait painting and alla prima oil painting tutorials. Alex teaches the traditional painting techniques artists used to draw and paint from life up until the start of the 20th century.

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