How to Paint Black and Grey Figurative Angels

In this part, I will help you create the foundation of the painting using a palette knife and brush. I use the canvas to act like an old distressed wall

One of the most important parts of painting photorealism is edges. In this lesson, I will be showing you how to bring the background up to the main subject with ease and finesse.

It is really easy to overwork elements like hands and backgrounds. In this lesson, I continue to work the background around the hands focusing on soft edges.

Like lesson 3, I now continue to render the arms and hands and body. The key for you will be to not overdevelop the hands. The face and hair are the focal points.

In this lesson, I’ll add the details without overdoing it. It is crucial to the integrity of the piece to keep things soft and dreamy while still keeping definition.

This is the step that often gets over baked by artists. I’ll show you how I mix my paint to keep highlights natural and not overbearing.

This step is key to adding ethereal heavenly lighting for the piece.

As I wrap up the piece we will clean up, tighten up and make sure all elements are coming together in harmony