Jessica Libor Fine Art
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How to Paint Like the Masters: Part 7, Window Shading and Glazing
This is the stage in the painting where it all starts to come together. In part six of this series of posts on how to paint like the masters, we left off when finishing the ebauche, a thin layer of paint and turpinoid with a few drops of oil mixed in, to set the tone … Continue reading
Working with Silver Leaf, the Figure, and Oils: Daughter of Eve
As I work at my easel this month, I’m trying some new techniques with silver and gold leaf before painting over top with oils. This piece is called ‘Daughter of Eve’ and is a self portrait I’m working on. There’s a subtle message underlying it, about how we all have so much in common as … Continue reading
How to Paint Like the Masters, Part 5: Advice on Rendering Details in Drawing
While I was taking this workshop at GCA, I was ready to be done with drawing at this point. I wanted to get to the fun part…painting! There’s something so freeing and satisfying about the brush tip making marks on your canvas, and the ability to manipulate it. However, I disciplined myself to stay on … Continue reading
How to Paint Like the Masters, Part 4: The Rendering Continues
To continue our journey towards a beautiful painting, we begin where we left off, while still rendering a drawing and getting the values correct. Again, remember that with every finished drawing, painting in the correct value scale becomes easier. Before we dive in again, I wanted to share with you some of the most inspiring … Continue reading
How to Paint Like the Masters, Part 3: Drawing and Rendering
In this post, we’ll make the leap from just drawing in contours and lines to actually rendering. At this stage, you should have a very technically correct line drawing of the model in front of you. It may be a bit smudged and messy from erasing multiple times and retracing over lines, so you may … Continue reading
How to Paint Like the Masters, Part 2: Drawing
Hello fellow artists! I’m back on my second post on how to paint like the masters, sharing with you all the notes that took from a particularly helpful workshop at Grand Central Academy of Art that I took this past summer. Let’s pick up where we left off, at the drawing stage. In the previous … Continue reading
How to Paint Like the Masters, Part 1
In this post I just wanted to share my extensive notes from a very helpful workshop that I took this summer at the Grand Central Academy of Art. Joshua LaRock was the instructor, and it was one of the most thorough and helpful classes I’ve ever taken. Joshua studied for four years at the GCA … Continue reading
