Portrait Painting Tutorial - Sargent Copy Using Pyrrole Red

Sargent Copy Using Pyrrole Red

In this portrait painting tutorial, realist artist Alex Tzavaras completes a master copy of a Portrait of Carolus Duran, by John Singer Sargent. Painted in 1879, Carolus Duran was Sargent's teacher and his Atelier in Paris, where he taught direct Alla Prima oil painting techniques, was considered revolutionary. As at that time, Art schools still taught classical oil painting techniques, of beginning an oil painting with a detailed under drawing and applying colour with many layers of transparent glazes.

To do this exercise yourselves, download a free version of Sargent's original painting here:
https://www.clarkart.edu/artpiece/detail/Carolus-Duran

To paint this copy Alex uses the Zorn Palette. A limited palette usually made up of four colours, Ivory Black, Vermillion or Cadmium Red Light, Yellow Ochre and White. However, intead of Cadmium Red Light, Alex has substuted it with Winsor Red by Winsor and Newton. A much cheaper colour that uses a pigent called PYROLLE Red PY255.

This video is an add on to Alex's previous video on oil paints, in which he suggests some cheaper alternatives to expensive colours like Cadmium Red and Yellow.

To see Alex's previous video on oil paint, visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J09PLnBtUMo

To see Alex's master copy of Juan De Pareja by Diego Velázquez, filmed entirely in real time, visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoCSaNKDyNg

Alex Tzavaras is a contemporary realist artist offering portrait painting and alla prima oil painting tutorials. Alex teaches the traditional painting techniques artists used to draw and paint from life up until the start of the 20th century.

For Alex's course on the fundamentals of oil painting visit:
https://www.patreon.com/simplifydrawingandpainting

Or connect with Alex:
https://www.instagram.com/alex_tzavaras/
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https://twitter.com/alextzavaras
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