Mastering Portrait Oil Painting: Techniques and Insights from Mr. Yim Mau-Kun
Master the Art of Portrait Oil Painting with Mr. Yim Mau-Kun
Learn the secrets of portrait oil painting from master artist Mr. Yim Mau-Kun. In this blog post, explore techniques like custom color mixing, focusing on color block relationships, and creating expressive brushstrokes. These insights will help you bring your portraits to life with depth and vibrancy. Ready to dive deeper? Enroll in the full video course for expert instruction on creating stunning, lifelike portraits with oil paint.
Mastering the Art of Drawing: Techniques and Philosophy from Mr. Yim Mau-Kun
Unlock the secrets of portrait drawing with renowned artist Mr. Yim Mau-Kun. In this blog post, explore key techniques like block-in, planar analysis, and mastering likeness and proportions, all of which form the foundation of great portraiture. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, these insights will help elevate your drawing skills to new heights. Ready to take your art further? Enroll in the full video course for step-by-step instruction from a master.
Firm and soft edges in drawing
Exchange with social media friends – Firm and Soft Edges in Drawing 答網友問 - 素描中的虛與實 Dear Mr. Yim, I love drawing and have watched your drawing video lessons many times. I’m mesmerized by the firm and soft edges and texture in your drawing and would like to emulate, but...
How to Create Narrative Paintings (Part 3) and 25% off site wide
Happy holidays! We are offering 25% off for books and video lessons until 12/06. Please enter code HappyHolidays for checkout. How to create narrative paintings (part 3) This is a follow-up post of the previous two posts (links below) and part 2 of case study...
How to Create Narrative Paintings (Part 2)
This is a follow-up post to the previous post about how to create narrative paintings. In this post and the next, I’m going to share my experience in creating Taiwan’s Forefathers – Reaching Shore in two parts: The first part introduces the conceptual sketch, pencil...
How to Create Narrative Paintings (part 1)
Narrative painting is the most challenging genre in realistic art. It’s labor intensive and time consuming. It requires a solid foundation of drawing and sketching and adept portrait painting skills. It’s challenging and painstaking to create a narrative painting but...
A Painting Trip of Xiangxi (Western Hunan) China
Note: The article below recounts a painting trip to Xiangxi (Western Hunan), China in 1988, and is a snapshot of China at the time, roughly a decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution and Deng Xiaoping opened up the country, and right before the 1989 crackdown...
What to bring on a plein air painting trip?
I have written about the benefits of small plein air painting and how and why it can help improve color observation skills. Suppose you are totally convinced and would like to give it a try or you simply love to paint outdoors, what should you bring? Sure, you can...
Chen Yifei and Me
I’ve been meaning to write about my friendship with Chen Yifei for a number of years. I put off putting pen to paper however because he had just passed away and it may give the impression of trying to ride on his coattails. Now is a slightly better time to write about...
Song-Yuan Dynasty Landscapes and Picasso
I am best known as an oil painter. But before I took the path down oil painting, I spent considerable time practicing Chinese ink painting. My experience with the East and West art systems over the years have yielded some interesting observations, one of them being...