Yellow ochre is a muted yellow, cadmium red medium is a strong but controllable red, and ivory black is a cool dark blue. Yes, he used some other colors, like cerulean blue, on occasion, but normally he just used those four. What was really interesting is that Zorn primarily used an extremely limited palette of yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, ivory black, and white. Zorn was a Swedish painter, a contemporary of John Singer Sargent, and painted in somewhat similar style. This evening, a friend of mine posted a link to a blog post about Anders Zorn. Both artists, though, have very lively brushwork, and both have very similar approaches to the initial block-in and early refinement stages of a painting. But where Liberace would pull in, say, violets and greens and rose, Huston relied more on controlling the light/dark values and only slightly adjusting the basic color. He considers himself a tonalist painter and uses a more restricted palette of colors with many standard colors like ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, and burnt umber. So while I learned a lot from Liberace's video, I will never be able to match his color sense.Ī couple of weeks ago, I participated in a workshop with the painter Steve Huston. That's kinda important when you're a painter, particularly one who uses a wide spectrum of colors. My difficulty is in seeing differences in adjacent colors when they are the same light/dark value. But the funny thing is, I can mix up paint to match any of the colored dots. You know those color tests where they show you a card with lots of colored dots, and you're supposed to see the number? I've never passed that test. It's common for men to have some color perception difficulties, and I suffer from that. Besides just being different artists, my color vision is not as sharp as his. But his colors and techniques are not something that I can fully follow. So I added some new colors to my palette, played with them in some small paintings to test the concept, and learned some new stuff. Liberace uses a much larger selection of tube colors than I do, and he uses the colors in very imaginative ways. His portraits had really struck me with their liveliness and energy and I wanted to see if I could pick up on that. So a while back, I got an instructional DVD from Robert Liberace. I haven't been happy with the way I select which colors go on the canvas - I've been too tentative and too literal, and that has carried over into the way the final painting is perceived. One important aspect of that is the feel for color. Will pack very well.As I wrote about last month, I've been trying to revitalize my painting techniques. Shipping and Handling: Buyer to pay shipping and handling. Payment is to be made within 5 days of auction end. I will combine Shipping with other auctions.
See my other auctions for the other 4 Robert Liberace DVD's. In 2003 he received the Portrait Society of American Grand Prize Award in their International Portrait Competition and in 2006, the Artist's Magazine selected Rob as one of the top twenty realist artists under the age of forty. Aside from pencil and chalk, he works in a variety of mediums including oil, pen and ink, watercolor, and clay. Total running time is 2 hours and 58 minutes Photos of the model in position can be downloaded from (see back of dvd case).
Special features include selection of materials, art gallery (II) and dvd previews. He describes the surface and underlying forms of the face and discusses the rich array of colors and the various materials used while rendering the portrait in a spirited and efficient manner. In this three hour dvd Robert Liberace demonstrates Alla Prima as he paints a portrait of his artist-filmmaker friend Adam Lubkin. Artists from Hals to Sorolla employed this bravura technique with dynamic virtuosity achieving dazzling results. No other technique demonstrates the beauty and energy of the brushstroke better than this fresh and painterly style. This method, also called “premier coup”, often requires that the painting is completed in one sitting. Retails for $85Language : English The Alla Prima Portrait Painting, Volume I: The Alla Prima Portrait The Alla Prima technique, an expressively direct manner of painting, is the “wet into wet” application of paint popularized by the impressionists. DVD is used but in excellent condition in Box!Bought New directly from Robert Liberace's website and used once to copy to my computer.
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