Comprehensive Portrait Oil Painting Course
Comprehensive Portrait Oil Painting Course
Designed to help you master the art of oil painting
The first two portraits (German Youth, Haima) have lectures on painting approaches and techniques and live demonstration. There is also a split screen of the palette so that the viewer can see how Mr. Yim mixes colors. There are also four demonstration videos for the viewer to see Mr. Yim’s painting process in practice.
The 6 paintings featured have different color schemes, composition and slightly different approaches based on the subject and painting size. Two of them (French Woman, Portuguese) also include a color study prior to the full-size painting. Color study is an important technique to understand and analyze color relationships in an oil painting.
Yim Mau-Kun’s style is a combination of the Russian school of The Wanderers and the Impressionist of the 19th century. It’s precise in form, with rich color variation and painterly brushwork. Over the decades, he insists on the tradition of painting from life. Face-to-face communication allows him to better capture both the form and spirit of the subject on canvas.
Mr. Yim has decades of teaching and painting experience. His lectures are done in layman terms, with humor and creative analogies to help his students understand painting approaches and techniques. He also lectures and demonstrates live at the same time so that the students thoroughly understand what he is talking about. The lectures and demonstrations in the course were all done in live painting sessions. Mr. Yim also shares his painting experience and philosophies in his lectures and demonstrations.
