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Lasarasu — Classical Painting Tutorial 01 - Padma
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I'd like to share my painting process I used throughout my paintings.
I'm still experimenting with this technique, research and work hard to get the hang of it. This is the basics of classical painting that Old Masters used from Middle Age to Romanticism. Of course, this isn't pretty much it. I believe they had all sorts of different techniques and used multiple layers to achieved such great works of art and realism throughout the age of Art that spanned 700 years until the Modern Era.
I researched a lot about this style of painting and found NOT a lot of practical information about it (yet 
For those who interested in classical painting and for those who use it, let us REDISCOVER it, PRESERVE and take it till the future of art!
If you have any questions or have some information about it, please share it below.
Thanks!
Padma 24x36in
Also, I apologize for the image quality, I'll do a better job next time XD.
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What's thje advantage to the phase doing the flesh-tone areas in grey?
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It gives more realistic skin tones, check out my other tutorial for more details if you haven't seen it yet
Classical Oil Painting Tutorial 02 - Bacchus
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I also experienced some difficulties finding reliable informations about classical techniques but the following link seams to provide serious knowledges.
www.noteaccess.com/MATERIALS/M…
Thanks for sharing your process.
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Good find man, thanks for posting it!
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ito ok lang ako bro., ganon pa din., may changes lang ng konti., haha., ikaw ba?
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Hi Lasarasu,
Great piece and great gallery!
I'm teaching myself to paint at the moment (and will probably never stop learning) and so far I've just been painting Alla Prima. But, like you, I have had to piece together information from here and there on using glazes and painting like the masters; I'm working on the first piece using these methods now (while crossing my fingers that it works), so it's really great to have come across your work and your guidance.
So keep it up and teach me all you know! haha.
Thanks.
PS It's great to see so many other students commenting as well. I've added some great titles to my reading list.
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Hey, thanks for the comment! Great, I would love to see what your piece will turn out.
As for practice, you can try to paint few round balls if you want and render them in multi-layer process (which what I did 
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Thanks, that's a great idea!
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I want to start with oil... it looks hard...
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Thank you for sharing this process. I've never really painted traditionally, but I love the insight to the process. Beautiful paintings too!
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You should definitely look up Frank Covino. I have a question though, is it really that easy to color over the gray without it looking like there is grey underneath? I started a small practice portrait that is now gray colored but now I'm nervous to start to glaze over it. So I just kind of stopped...
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I did look him up before. I really wish I could meet him and take his class. I still have a lot of questions about old master's painting process.
About the gray colored layer, I actually keep my color layers transparent for the gray layer to show through on some part. I don't mean to scare you but its probably the most tricky (and fun) step in the process : D. Start on the less important part of the painting if you're worried to ruin your painting. I wasted a few paintings because of trial and error before I get to this point too. It will take practice and don't be afraid! Good luck
P.S. I'd like to see your work after
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Thanks for the reply. I always worry that my dead layer isn't light enough so that when I layer, it doesn't become too dark. It's hard for me to paint a shade or so lighter. Messes with my head and I always seem to subconsciously darken things. Someday I'll hopefully get the hang of it like you. I'll be sure to let you see what happens!
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I see. That happens to me. Have a small black, gray and white cards handy when you paint. Place it beside the area you’re painting on. You can get an idea on how dark or light your value/tone is. Hope that helps.
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That way of painting is really impressive, and as you said it's difficult to find tutorials and infos about it... so thank you for that WIP!!
You maybe already know that book but I found it really interesting: it depicts different techniques of the Old masters like Dürer, Rubens, Titian or Vermeer.
And I think it's very cheap. The french version is 10 times more expensive, I don't know why.......
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I haven't seen this book before. It seems pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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A very good book that touches on some of these techniques is, "The Academy & French Painting in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Boime, although it is out of print and a little expensive:
www.amazon.com/Academy-French-…
Among the chapters are the curriculum of the private ateliers of Drolling, Delaroche, Gleyre and Couture. An example from the book, "Couture later used this fine, clear pigment, the colours of which were almost unmixed, in different thicknesses, and by spreading it more or less densely on the ebauche layer which was actively brought into play in the final stage, he obtained delicate half-tints."
It is sad that the techniques of the old masters has been lost and we are left to our own devices to discover their secrets. You seemed to be on the right path. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing, I've seen this before but haven't read it yet. I'm sure its one of those gem books from 19th century about painting.
I'm reading Philip Gilbert Hamerton's The Graphic Arts book, and man, Its a hell of a book! He discussed various classical painting methods from 15th -19th artists like Titian, Rubens and French artists. It might be worth for searching.
Thanks again for posting!
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Wow, wow!! Can I ask you something? I am a novice in painting, and I don't really understand why you start by dark colors. Why angels begin with grey colors?
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Hey there,
In the first few layers (imprimatura), I rendered the painting in thin brownish monochrome. Though, it will be covered by color layers later, it helps to establish the value (tonal) composition of the painting.
Dead colors is a way of rendering skin tone that if you lay a warm colors (red/yellowish skin color) over a cool/cold (blue/grey) colors, it gives an optical illusion of realistic skin tone. It is a very difficult technique and mine's not a good example to look at, to be honest
If you're really interested with this, look some paintings by Peter Paul Rubens or Caravaggio. This technique is very obvious on the way they rendered skin tones.
Hope that answer your questions.
Good luck!
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Ty so much !!
This technique seems to be really hard but interesting by the way!
I will try it ^^
Thanks for your answer and have a nice day.
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No problem, good luck!
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Gah, this makes me want to pick up painting. 
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I guess it depends on what you wanted to do. Oil paints for sure have more capabilities than other mediums. You could use oils in a direct way of painting like "Alla Prima" technique to avoid the complication of using multiple layers and just having a single or few layers. My painting Bouquetiere was done using direct painting.
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I also looked very much about this style. I have found nothing in german but little in english. I love the classical painting from the old masters.
I like your work very much!
Thank`s for this tutorial
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I always wondered what is the painting process for good old arts... Thanks you!!!! ITS AWESOME!!! Maybe a guide tutorial? 
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you are amazing teach me master!! btw could you make a tutorial of this method describing the steps ?i kind of find it hard to understand
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Sure I'll do that on the next one, I'm about to finish the one I'm working on so maybe I'll do more descriptive on that.
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yaay let me know when its finished
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Hi, great work. check out Charles Bargue, he did a drawing course with Jean-Léon Gérôme, its hard to get hold of the complete course but there is alot of pages floating around. We used them at my school.
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Wow that's awesome! Gerome is like one of my favorite. I'll definetely check it out right now. Thanks a lot :-D
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Cool, I never had a formal training for fine art so it will help me a bunch. Thanks again
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i think u should go to a hospital, because that amount of skill is something that should be documented.
Doctor: it seems you have a rare condition of awesome floathing in Your veins.
Doctor: it can not be cured.
Doctor: It will only become worse, and eventually you will become God of the awesome and i shit you not, there is no way to stop it.
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