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Painting a Still Life: Fox Skull Study – Arthur Gain

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Painting a Still Life: Fox Skull Study Information Painting a Still Life: Fox Skull Study is a video lesson designed to guide artists through the process of painting a still life, specifically focusing on a study of a fox skull. In this video lesson I invite you to start with extremely limited palette of Earth pigments and expand this palette later for additional hue shifts and temperature changes. By the end of the lesson you will learn how to start a painting with a tonal layer (Brunaille) first and build up form and details with wider color palette in the second session. What You’ll Learn In Painting a Still Life: Fox Skull Study First Session: The goal is to create an underpainting with a sense of form, find relationship between the object and the background, set up the overall key of the piece and prepare it for the next day Second Session: How to apply a "couche" - oiling out with a pigment, rendering of the form using colors, harmonization of the piec...