Paint Application with Charlie Pickard
Charlie Pickard
Join Charlie Pickard in this series on paint application. Through a set of exercises you'll explore direct painting, glazing, and scumbling. You'll start by painting a scale and gradient in each technique, then a sphere, and then an eye, and then finally you'll combine all the techniques in a stunning full-colour portrait.
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You can see the materials list here, and download the reference images from here.
Friday 28 February, 2025
Listen to Charlie introduce his paint application series, and talk about the exercises you'll be doing.
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Friday 28 February, 2025
Discover what materials you'll need to follow Charlie as he demonstrates different methods of paint application.
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Friday 28 February, 2025
Start by painting a set of scales from light to dark using opaque paint and a palette knife
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Friday 28 February, 2025
Painting a sphere is a great exercise. Here you'll paint one using a palette knife and opaque paints
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Friday 28 February, 2025
Now you've finished some opaque painting exercises, it's time to paint an eye from one of the images from our reference library
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Friday 28 February, 2025
The next step is to repeat the exercises, but this time with glazing. Here you'll paint a value scale and a gradation
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Now you'll paint a sphere, using glazing
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Friday 28 February, 2025
To complete the glazing exercises, you'll paint an eye from the same image reference as before.
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Friday 28 February, 2025
To start exploring the third and final paint application technique, you'll repeat the previous set of exercises, starting with using scumbling to paint a set of value scales
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Friday 28 February, 2025
As with the previous two sets of exercises, you'll use the techniques you learned creating the value scales and paint a sphere, scumbling this time
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In this final scumbling exercise, you'll paint the same eye as before, but using a different technique.
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Friday 28 February, 2025
Before you dive into the final painting, here's a bonus set of exercises to give you feel how to combine the different techniques of opaque painting, scumbling and glazing. As before, you'll start with a set of value scales.
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Friday 28 February, 2025
In this penultimate episode, you'll combine the different types of paint technique to paint a sphere
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Friday 28 February, 2025
Now that you have a solid understanding of the different types of paint application, watch Charlie Pickard combine them all in a full colour painting.
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