The Story Book

Course Title: Paint Like Bouguereau: The Story Book Reproduction

The Story Book Reproduction course will help you recreate this timeless masterpiece, which William Adolphe Bouguereau initially painted. Furthermore, this course covers all aspects of painting this reproduction, from preparing the canvas to completing the final details. It also includes tutorial videos focusing on methods such as initial oil sketching with paint, grisaille, blocking, glazing, and detailing, making it an essential resource for artists who want to improve their skills in realistic portrait painting and learn new and traditional techniques.

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Recommended Prerequisites:

Creating working Images in Photoshop

How To Paint With A Limited Palette Like A Pro

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Original The Story BooK

Recommended Prerequisites:

Creating working Images in Photoshop

How To Paint With A Limited Palette Like A Pro

Get Accurate Colors With The Color Checker!.

Build a Color Checker for under $10.00.

Material List

Materials List for Oil Painting Reproduction:

The canvas has been coated with gesso, rotated horizontally and vertically, and sanded smoothly between each coat. As a result, I painted the canvas about ten times to create a smooth working surface supporting Da Vinci’s detailing and glazing techniques.

Clickable links will take you to Amazon, where they were purchased for reproduction.

Tools:

• Proportional Divider
• Color Checker
• Glass Palette
• Palette Knife
• Ruler
• Red or Black Pastel pencil for gridlines

Canvas For Reproduction:

18″ W X 24″ H prepared canvas

Oil Paints:

All reproductions use a minimal pallet of six colors:

• Cadmium Yellow
• French Ultramarine
• Burnt Umber
• Titanium White
• Vermillion Hue
• Ivory Black

Glazing Mixture:

• Pure Refined Linseed Oil for mixing and thinning
• Windsor Newton Glazing and Blending Medium for glazing and thinning for details

Sketching With Paint:

Gamblin Gamsol is a solvent artists use to clean their brushes and thin down brown paint for the initial sketch on canvas. Remember not to use Gamsol or any other cleaning solvent for anything other than sketching. For example, George Werbacher uses brown paint thinned with Gamsol when needed for the initial oil painting sketch. In addition, George uses linseed oil only when prepping oil paints for use in all his reproductions and originals.

Demonstration Videos: