Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso: Poetic PortraitsHere are just some ways this video will help you: Move from old 2D thinking to new 3D thinking really cool! Connect and Correct the key to poetic flow in your portraits Tone your canvas before painting (Gabriela spells out the benefits for you) Background or foreground subject, where to start? Why lots of palette colors makes lots of sense! Emphasizing and subduing, a real balancing act Perseverance rules the day, every day! Painting from photos vs.

The perfect color to bring any flowers you paint to life

When you take the lines out of nature

Her skilled brushwork makes her canine portraits “pop” with life

using any medium

Avoiding the circulation trap

The crucial third step

Don't assume anything

the same way you use salt in your cooking

Mapping the Fleshtones

get an accurate drawing

Demonstration: Underpainting Block In--Use water-soluble oil paint to create a juicy “crazy” underpainting thinking about the composition / values and temperatures of colors

juicy surface which she tells how to accomplish with her favorite knives and brushes