Painting the Nude
Kristin Kunc
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- In-depth Instruction; over 129 mins
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- Access to class Q&A
Introduction
1:22
Meet Kunc and discover what you'll be learning in this class.
From Drawing to Canvas
18:56
Learn considerations to make when working from a photo, then transfer an image to your canvas.
Body Shape Exercise
14:46
Paint the form and transitional tones of an egg in this practice lesson.
The Underpainting
22:19
Create a tonal structure with a raw umber wash using additive and subtractive painting techniques.
Color Study
14:49
Examine Kunc's color palette and create a poster study of the model.
The Value Scale
15:07
Learn to mix an 11-tone value scale and compare it to a grayscale image of your model.
Value & Color Part 1
12:54
Mix paints to create a color value string, then apply the colors to your underpainting.
Value & Color Part 2
12:08
Use your color value string to refine transitions between light and shadow.
Finishing the Background
16:01
Paint the background and examine the finished painting.
Description
Explore the timeless techniques of Classical Realism as you learn to depict the nude figure in oil paint. Tone your canvas for a unifying glow, and find out how to simplify the complexities of the body into manageable planes and shapes. Delve into value, color and dimension with effective exercises in light and shadow, and create a tonal road map for your composition. Watch artist Kristin Kunc work off a live studio model as you join along, painting section by section to fill out the nude figure with beautifully blended skin tones. Create realistic contours and muscles using value shifts, and paint a dynamic, soft-focus background that illuminates your entire composition!
Kristin Kunc
Kristin Kunc has immersed herself in classical painting for the last 15 years, training at the Cape Cod School of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Water Street Atelier in New York City. Her paintings have been exhibited across the country, and Fine Art Connoisseur magazine reviewed her work as possessing a signature style that is at once daring and demure, literal and figurative, rebellious and reverent. She teaches in Oyster Bay and Brooklyn, New York.
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