Portrait Painting T & C, Part 4, Refined Edition
Added 2021-02-28 10:42:06 +0000 UTCThis part in real time is 4 hours long- here I have condensed it into about 38 minutes.
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Hi Patricia, I use a variety of sizes but mostly they are quite small. Honestly its been so long since I bought them I can't recall but it's gotta be in the 2-6 range.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2021-03-16 09:47:13 +0000 UTCStephen. You may have mentioned it in a previous post regarding what brushes you use. I assume they are the Utrecht Manglon Synthetic Brushes. What sizes are you using for the grisaille as well as the color painting tutorials? In watching, they seem to work quite well for you.
Patricia Penner
2021-03-16 00:58:28 +0000 UTCI used to use Egbert shaped brushes, hog bristle. They are great for loading the canvas with paint. If you like impastos and broad paintings they are the ones for you. Eventually I strayed away from them. I do use sometimes a filbert or flat hog bristle for direct painting.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2021-03-09 21:34:53 +0000 UTCActually, I should have been more specific....I ment hog hair bristol which are not as soft as sables.
Debra Schulman
2021-03-08 16:22:54 +0000 UTCHi Debra, in my estimation these brushes create similar results. Not the same, but similar enough. I haven't tried bristol brushes before, I am guessing that they are synthetic as well?
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2021-03-08 08:32:16 +0000 UTCI also meant to add to my comment a question. In the past I recall you saying you use synthetic brushes rather than sable because you are rough on your brushes. Do you thinik synthetic and sable give the same results? ...and during this sesion you only used synthetic, what do you think about bristol brushes?
Debra Schulman
2021-03-07 23:56:13 +0000 UTCThank you for the encouragement to keep on pushing forward with a painting "I know on the other side of this struggle is the paintingI am trying to make".....how true.
Debra Schulman
2021-03-07 23:52:50 +0000 UTCBeautiful painting!
Denise Barta Sagan
2021-03-03 01:31:40 +0000 UTCHi Geoffrey, If you are drawing on oil primed linen I would suggest only using Spectra Fix to seal the drawing lines. Since PVA is water based it is not stable on TOP of oil. My demos with PVA are all on drawing made on paper. Using the PVA then makes it possible to paint with oil over the top without damaging the paper.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2021-03-02 10:02:00 +0000 UTCExquisite 🙌
Kamlika Chandla
2021-03-02 03:14:39 +0000 UTCLIFE-CHANGING QUESTION: I saw you using PVA sizing over drawings in earlier videos. Is this only over acrylic gesso? What about oil primed linen or board; how can I seal the drawing? This has been a life long problem- graphite / charcoal lines smearing into oil. Please save my life 🙏
Geoffrey Gersten
2021-03-01 23:38:35 +0000 UTCHi Stephen. I am really enjoying your Grisaille to finished painting series. I'm sorry if you've addressed this already but what is your opinion on doing color charts to learn color mixing with oils? I've heard several painters highly recommend doing them but they use several colors in their painting.
Denise Barta Sagan
2021-03-01 17:24:45 +0000 UTC
