Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a tangerine
with oil paints.
We begin by making a brown mixing sanguine and sepia,
with solvent and using the brush we lay it on the canvas.
Like this, with strokes that don´t need to be even, because then
with a rag we even it out.
This step of toning the canvas you don´t need to do it necessarily.
I do it because I don´t like painting on a white surface.
Then with a hard bristles brush, I draw the outline.
There is no paint on the brush, only solvent. And with this we
can sketch the shape of the fruit.
Very good!
Now we mix some more of the brown using the sepia and some ultramarine blue
… and some green.
I added those colors because the brown tended toward the reddish,
and that´s not what I wanted. I wanted it more toward the greenish,
for this surface which is where the tangerine will be.
Good!
This is the tone I had in mind.
It should represent wood, of course.
The edge along here will be lighter.
Therefore we mix some ochre yellow with the brown.
And we can add others such as orange or to make it lighter,
a little bit of white.
I don´t want it too uniform, and that is why I apply it in this way.
The highlight of the tangerine will be here. I make it with
the same bristle brush with solvent, as the paint of course is still wet.
Good!
Now let´s do the background.
This will be also pretty dark, but I want it of a different hue.
This will tend a little bit more toward the purple. Of course I am
referring, only to a light tint within the brown, like this.
And now we mix the orange for the tangerine.
Before beginning to paint it, I prepare different hues.
Some lighter with more yellow and some with more red,
or even of a wine color.
And we begin painting with these darken ones.
I´m not painting an apple, I known what you were thinking [laughs].
With a light yellow and white we paint some reflections.
And now let´s paint the leaf with different tonalities of green.
By the way normally the palette with the colors, I don´t have it in this
position, I have it on my left hand on a horizontal table, but today
I placed it over here, vertically on the side of the painting
so that you could see, more or less what I´m doing with the colors.
I hope you can see something.
I think is working ok, except that some are running down [laughs].
I will not blend and smooth out the colors, but I will leave them
a little bit rough like this, because I want a more painterly effect.
We add shadows and lights to give more volume!
I love painting with oils because you can keep mixing the colors as you go.
It´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo