The Most IMPORTANT Thing To Learn In Oil Painting Is This

In this oil painting video I explain why focusing in on small detail can result in over modelling in your artwork: the small detail pushes out your larger value blocks. This results in a painting that just looks off.
I use various examples to illustrate my points including a dog time lapse video.
All artwork is copyrighted to Sarah Halliday, and cannot be reproduced for commercial purposes.
I try and post weekly. If you like my videos please subscribe to my channel:
czcams.com/channels/48m.html...
For private lessons and online classes, please see my website
sarahhallidayart.com/pages/pr...
You can view my most up to date work on my Instagram:
/ sarahhallid. .
You can buy prints, cards and commissions from my website:
sarahhallidayart.com

[@lauriecook3015]

Great suggestion! Instead of setting my reference photo farther away, I just reduce it down to thumbnail size and it does pretty much the same thing.😊 Amazing what errors I catch.

[@willowtree6487]

I’ve never heard of over modelling before! That was very interesting, as it’s so tempting to try and paint every detail to make it look realistic, when actually I don’t need to. Look forward to trying this for my next painting!

[@deborahmongatoart]

Such great tips. I hope someday to be able to take a workshop

[@DG-ri1lp]

Love all your videos. I’ve learned slot about colours. Thank you.

[@sarahhallidayart]

no problem. Thank you for watching

[@susanmills6188]

Thanks

[@sarahhallidayart]

thank you so much!!! so kind of you and always really appreciated. 😁

[@fsalad]

❤

[@zalexia27]

clip studio art is much cheaper than photoshop and is more user friendly and as good as photoshop in my opinion its about 90 dollars.

[@sarahhallidayart]

thank you for sharing that info. I use quite a few of the other creative cloud apps and Photoshop is included so it makes sense for me to use it, but I'm sure there are lots of other people that would find that really useful to know. 😀

[@zalexia27]

its just an alternative for people on a budget. i love your art. i have a white dog with fluffy hair. shes hard to get the colors in and if i take a picture . theres always lense flare