How to Paint Brass for Beginners EASY! 5 Steps - 10 minutes

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Here's 5 Steps to Painting Brass Easy and Fast in Oil Paint
in my alla prima oil painting technique.

Supplies: Cremnitz white, Naples yellow, Cadmium lemon, Cadmium yellow deep, Chinese orange, cadmium red light, avignon orange (or transparent red oxide), burnt umber, black. Medium is Old Masters Maroger
Robert simmons filbert hog hair brushes and ampersand museum series gessoboard and Jack Richeson palette knife

My 5 Step Process:
Background color is Ivory Black and White
Tone is a light burnt umber thinned medium.

Step 1: Brass Color
Burnt Umber + Cadmium Yellow Deep or Medium
Brass color is in the yellow color hue family, but duller in saturation.
Fill in your brass color making sure you don't paint it too light or too dark in value.

Step 2: Reflections
One of the qualities of brass is its reflectivity.
Put any strong reflections that you see.

Step 3 : Add textures and highlights
Highlights on metal are very bright and strong, sharp edges and have more local color in them. Use a palette knife to get the wet paint to stick on top of wet paint and add texture.

Step 4: Shadows
Look for darker shadow shapes the describe which parts of the form are away from the light source. If the form is curved then curve the shape of your shadow. Don't forget a cast shadow underneath the object so it's not floating.

Step 5: Shimmer
Connect the lights gradually and soften some of the texture added by the palette knife. Add in the complementary temperature (in this case cooler tones) to enhance shimmer.

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