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How to create a self portrait like Van Gogh

How to create an impressionist painting like Breitner

From the series Geïnspireerd door

George Hendrik Breitner (1857 - 1923) was a Dutch painter.

Thanks for the lesson about creating an impressionist painting, Lisanne van den Heuvel!

Reference: Girl in a White Kimono, George Hendrik Breitner

Material list:

  • Stretched canvas (57 x59 cm)

  • Acrylic chalk primer (light ground)

  • Acrylic ochre paint (light ground)

  • Charcoal (underdrawing)

  • Acrylic paints (earth tones umber, ochre, sienna) for under modeling background

  • White, black, umber, sienna and ochre acrylic paints for under modeling kimono

  • Water mixable oil paints for final layers.