The Oil Painting Portrait Course: Secrets Of The Old Masters

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About This Course

In this course you will learn a simple but effective method to create spectacular oil portrait painting.

The oil portrait technique is possibly one of the most difficult pictorial techniques to master.

For over 500 years artists have designed thousands of ways to solve the 3 basic problems of a portrait in oil.


  1. the line

  2. the values of the shadows

  3. and the colors of the skin


There are many techniques but, we can divide them into 2 types,

those that work by layers and those that work directly.


the first is known as "Glazing Tecnic" and the second as "A la prima".


In this course we are going to focus on the first, we will learn how to work by layers. and we will discover not only how to apply the different steps, But we will try to learn the principles behind these steps in a simple and concrete way.

  • Learn To Draw a Realistic Portrait With Precision

  • Learn To Mix The Skin Colors

  • Learn The Differents Stages Of The Oil Painting Process

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Alejandro Encisso

When I was little I liked to draw, but my parents told me that the artists starve to the dead. That's why I studied engineering.but when I was 25 years old, although I was successful in what I was doing, there was an insatiable need to express myself through drawing. and on weekends and spare time were not enough, that...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of S Ravi Kumar Reddy
S R. K. R.
2.5
2 years ago

she is fair and lovely but your colors are very hard so that she is also looking hard......... and another thing is no likeness.... Her forehead left side is small...... your painting forehead is even............and below right eye also not perfect.....

finaly your brushing..... and merging is good..........

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Nazly
1.0
2 years ago

I don’t like the corse at all you are recording using time lapse and speak over too much .talking too match. what you are doing is not a course it’s chitchat even the sample he is drawing not looks like the model ,when you mentioned the specific colores you didn’t give the replacement . I need a refund

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Pauline F.
1.0
3 years ago

One of the biggest problems for me is the sub titles (closed captions). They are absolutely terrible and clearly no-one has checked them. I am hearing impaired and rely a lot on sub titles especially when , as in this case, the speaker has heavily accented English. A lot of the subtitles make no sense whatsoever and it makes it really hard to follow the advice of the tutor. I am really not impressed.

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Nancy R.
5.0
3 years ago

I have never painted a portrait, I get lost a bit re shadows and matching colors, maybe I just don't see what you see so easily.

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Mike B.
5.0
3 years ago

Very informative

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Dustin H.
5.0
4 years ago

Very informative and well done!

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Gloria J.
5.0
4 years ago

Wow! This instructor is so good at creating 3 dimensional structures, that it blows me away. This is exactly what I was missing and needed in my drawings and paintings as a self taught artist who began drawing after I retired at the age of 65.

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Lisa E.
3.0
4 years ago

There was a lot of good information within this course. The only thing that reduced it from 4 stars was the background music. The background music volume level was very inconsistent, at times interfering with the artist’s words. But much worse than that, on many segments the background music volume was increased after the artist had finished speaking. And when I say increased I mean blasted.

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Morenike A.
5.0
4 years ago

Great course. I got this course to serve as a refresher and I'm absolutely glad I got this. This will be great for beginners too.

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Ann J.
5.0
5 years ago

I will know more when I have completed the course. Has inspired me! Clear instructions and can't wait to try for myself.

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