Kari Lynn M.

Back to Portraits for Beginners Course

Time to take a break from the face and move onward toward, perhaps, the easiest part of a portrait: the hair!

This class will introduce you to creating hair, although you should recall some key ways to paint hair when we made eyebrows and even a mustache previously. You should find that hair is not nearly as detailed as the face itself, but there are a lot of highlights and lowlights to incorporate. This class is also going to show you how to specifically replicate two different textures of hair with two different types of brushstrokes.

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Materials Needed

• Paints
  • White
  • Raw Umber
  • Blue or Black
• A mixing palette for acrylic paint
• One paint mixing tool (either a spatula, butter knife, or craft/popsicle stick)
• One small/medium roundhead brush
  • Optional: one medium/large roundhead brush