How to Morph Acrylic Neo-surreal and Neo-expressionist Portrait Painting.

1. Intro Morph Acrylic Painting: Welcome to 464 Studio, a visual narrative to portrait art. I'm Francesco. In this lesson, we'll be looking at the fundamentals of portrait painting with expressive techniques. I will guide you with very simple step by step instructions so that you can hone your craft as we paint from a reference photo with an aim to capture the essence of that subject via application of bright hues and tonal values that brings out the magic with acrylic paint. In this particular lesson, we will be taking this a step further by morphing a reference of a human face, as well as reference with that of an animal. This in turn creates an artwork that is both unique and slightly neo surreal. We call it No because surrealist era has ended. So it's creating something that is with those overtones. Today, we then place No in front of it. Thus, it's neo surrealist and also neo expressionist in style, as the brush strokes used in this lesson stem from one that is more so an expressionist style of art. Okay, I'll see you in class. 2. Tools for Morph Acrylic Painting: Okay, let's get our tools ready. What you'll need for this lesson, ask some black acrylic paint, white acrylic paint, some primary colors or hues. In particular, these comprise of red acrylic paint, blue acrylic paint, yellow acrylic paint. I prefer to work with primary colors. And then mix these as needed. For example, blue and yellow will give us green. As well as this, you'll need flat head paint brushes for some of the block style application and round head tip paint brushes for the more finer touches. For cleaning purposes, we'll be needing tubs of water and for cleaning the paint brushes and some rags, also for cleaning. As for what to paint on, I enjoy the way canvas adheres and brings out a more quality result when using acrylic paint. However, we'll be using paper for this particular demo. Okay, let's get started. 3. Demo Morph Acrylic Painting: So here we are. We have this photo reference of the Panther and the young man looking both in the same direction. I'm going to morph them together. We have white paint, paint brushes, two tubs of water, some tissue paper if we need, black, blue, red and yellow, just the primary colors in case we need to mix. I've painted the paper for the background or the base color in bright green around the outside, some yellow on the bottom, and then also white in the center. From the reference photo, I've just first started by mapping out the approximate shapes and appearance of the animal, which is supposed to be a Panther, but it's starting to look more like a wolf type shape, but it's just an impression. So that's the main thing because I'm also considering the man's face at the same time as I'm doing this. Images. A nice fat, some bit of whitecappus. But the draw line used to be prominent sales, we can see that. By adding more strokes like this, we can actually do some magic too if we want. Is adding more layers if we go more just gate brush pam shape of a blotch here, the shape. Come. Okay, so I'm back with this painting. I'm going to have a look at some thinner paintbrushes and just work what I can see from the reference photo more on the boy, this title of the man, and see if I can work that nose, I can see that some of this white can be placed here just to give a definition here. I'll see if I can get a bit of the same shape as what I can see. I press because we like a bit of black. Maintain the same shape. But this is kind of coming here. Why did that? Was I'm trying to get the shape of that side of the face distinct as well. But more or less trying to get this part of the face. So I'm editing with the white paint as I'm getting closer to what I can see in the reference photo to be the man's nose. So it's halfway between the Panther nose and the man's nose. Okay. I'm referencing the photo. I'm kind of morph, but I'm also referencing the photo as well. Touches of yellow in the nose and also red in the lips can accentuate the foundation or the base aspects for adding tonal values for both of these. They're just base color. Sometimes it's good look a bit go back a bit. It's gonna come in. By adding strokes of say, red or blue as your foundation base, and it's still wet on wet. You can apply white on top of that to give it a wet on wet blending aspect. Although it looks like it's white, the tonal values do come through, and this adds to the overall sensation and effects. So as I continue with this painting, I can still see it's quite wet in the paint. But a lot of it is also solidified and become hardened so I'm going to just gently give it a bit of a bit of a I want to use a very fine paintbrush and go in with some of the details around where I can see the eye just to try and get a bit more of definition. So now we're going to try and see it As we continue to add layers and more paint, I'm still referencing the reference photo, both the portrait of the man and also the Panther. But at this stage, I'm focusing more on the portrait of the man trying to see if I can mold because initially it was looking more like the animal, and now I'm molding it. With the layers and the paint to get it closer to the portrait of the man, but still maintaining the Panther style aspect. Actual fact, it starts to look more like a wolf man, but adding the colors, adding the base white to highlight the essence as well, the aesthetics aspect, as I go through stroke after stroke, wet on wet application as it goes through, slowly it starts to come together, and you can see that I'm adding the brush strokes in the same direction where I see it's appropriate and where I can see the tonal values are needed. And as this goes closer, you can see the end results is quite distinct and with the bright main colors that have accentuated the details to maintain the essence and the morphing of the two images together. 4. Your Turn Morph Acrylic Painting.: Okay, that's my lesson on portrait painting that morphs and uses No surreal as well as neo expressionist painting techniques with acrylic painting. These techniques have helped me a great deal over the years, and I wish it can help you to hone your craft as well. However, this class is only a start. Now it's your turn. I'd love to see what you can produce in the same manner as the main demo part of this lesson. Thus, you too, can create an acrylic neo serial painting with expressionist style overtones and morph a portrait of a person with an animal. I'd love to see your work by posting it and sharing your work in the class project section. I'll see you again next time. Goodbye.