Daniel Greene: Oil Portrait: BernardThis comprehensive instructional video from Daniel Greene guides the artist on a 90 minute journey into an oil portraiture. Follow Greene step by step as he creates an oil portrait from start to finish. This video includes: Valuable tips on how to best organize your materials as well as thorough explanations of canvas, brushes and other materials used. An introduction to selecting backgrounds, lighting and choosing comfortable and natural positions

and “museum-quality” still life

How to create beautiful and engaging paintings that capture your viewers’ attention and leave them speechless

It examines old painting techniques such as the imprimatura tonal wash

In this instructive and helpful video

he's also earned himself a reputation as a fantastic teacher of painting

Even If You’ve Never Worked With Watercolors in Your Life

and a moment in time

regardless of medium or subject matter

It runs the length of the upper half of Italy from Rome toward the western provinces

opaque paint in the creation of the intense coloration in the girl's dress

His direct

for almost three decades he’s been creating and refining a method that he calls Alla Seconda — a technique for capturing the essence of your subject using only what touches you emotionally