Oil Portrait Colour Glazing Course

Thin layers of Mistakes

Safe in the privacy of your studio, you decide to have a little experiment.

This glazing thing can’t be that hard, it’s just like painting a watercolour … isn’t it?

Thin colours over opaque.

This is going to be it, this is going to capture those lovely translucent skin tones and as the colours go on, you’re feeling a litte bit like Rembrandt.

Mmm, this doesn’t look right.

You step back to see your results.

Ahh.

It looks like a stained black and white photograph. The skin tones look flat, not translucent at all, and come to think of it the portrait itself doesn’t look three-dimensional. Where did I go wrong?

Don’t fret, you’re not alone. This is exactly how my first foray into oil glazing started too!

Discovering a successful method has taken me to the Atelier’s in Florence, Italy, I’ve searched through long-forgotten manuscripts in libraries and distilled the complicated art of glazing into a simple, repeatable process.

Thinking through the layers of transparency, building up of the painting structure and keeping the freshness to the finished painting is down to layers of clear sparkling jewel-like transparent final colour glazes and semi-transparent veils of paint called Velatura.

A velatura is a thin layer of opaque paint, spread out so it creates a milky or foggy haze that obscures some of what’s beneath it, but not all. It’s like a glaze, but created using an opaque or semi-opaque pigment rather than a transparent one.

Save time

To discover these painting techniques have taken me many years of failed paintings, you can save time by shortening the learning curve!

Reduce costs

To study these techniques at a painting Atelier can cost over $1,000 a week in fees (not including travel & accommodation) being able to study at your own pace in your own studio can save thousands of pounds in your education.

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

What’s in the Course?

The course is split into 18 downloadable video lessons, with each lesson made up of separate chapters that follow on sequentially.

This is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow 6-hour video course, where you will discover a fresh, quick approach to painting 2 different portraits.

• 2 x portrait paintings, taking you step-by-step from drawing, right through to the finishing touches.
• 18-downloadable video lessons, split into separate chapters that follow on sequentially.
• Step-by-step instructional videos so that you can follow along at your own pace.
• Downloadable JPEG reference images, line drawings and a full materials list.
• Nearly 6 hours of detailed video instruction.
• Lifetime access, downloadable on separate devices.