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Oil Painting Techniques – Part 10: Brush Strokes and Their Lighting Effect with Helen Van Wyk

Part 10 of 15 Title:
Brush Strokes and the Light Effect

Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNmFUNddYNcbfLPUr_MGmYVfCz-lTvRg0

Full Lesson:
https://www.youtube.com/live/TllTFUmJ1as

Length:
9 minutes 50 seconds

In this detailed segment, Helen Van Wyk explores the rhythm of applying paint through deliberate brush strokes, showing how the movement of the brush creates specific visual effects. She emphasizes the importance of observing and analyzing how light interacts with objects, focusing on a copper pot and an apple. By breaking objects down into slices, Helen demonstrates how to build shape, tone, and highlights that correspond to the direction of the light. She provides practical tips on blending colors, controlling brush saturation, and using “successful accidents” as part of the creative process. Helen explains how to capture the play of light and shadow to create lifelike, yet plausible, representations of everyday objects. Viewers will learn how to translate their observations of light into realistic forms using only tone, color, and careful technique.

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