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Painting the Eyes and the Orbital Structure with Steve Huston

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Instructor
Steve Huston
Subjects
Painting
Topics
Anatomy, Head & Portrait
Mediums
Oil Paints
Duration
47m 17s

In this lesson world-renowned painter Steve Huston analyzes and explains the three-dimensional structures of the eye and approaches to rendering those structures in painting using an example from John Singer Sargent. You will learn how to work with light and shadow areas, how to render the roundness of the eyeball and how to construct the bony orbital area around the eye for beautiful and convincing eyes in your paintings.

Materials

  • Gamblin Artist Grade Oil Colors
  • Simply Simmons Paintbrush
  • Canvas Panel
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