The oil portrait technique is possibly one of the most difficult pictorial techniques to master.

For over 500 years artists have designed thousands of ways to solve the 3 basic problems of a portrait in oil.

1. the line

2. the values of the shadows

3. and the colors of the skin

There are many techniques but, we can divide them into 2 types,

those that work by layers and those that work directly.

the first is known as "Glazing Tecnic" and the second as "A la prima".

In this course we are going to focus on the first, we will learn how to work by layers. and we will discover not only how to apply the different steps, But we will try to learn the principles behind these steps in a simple and concrete way.