In this portrait painting tutorial, realist artist Alex Tzavaras completes a master copy of a John Singer Sargent Portrait Painting using the Zorn Palette.

For Alex's Alla Prima Portrait painting course visit:
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Alex is copying a portrait painting John Singer Sargent did of his teacher Carolus Duran. Completed in 1879, at Carolus Duran's Atelier in Paris, where he taught direct Alla Prima oil painting techniques.

To do this exercise yourselves, download a free version of Sargent's original painting here:
https://www.clarkart.edu/artpiece/det...

To paint this copy Alex uses the Zorn Palette. A limited palette usually made up of four colours, Ivory Black, Vermillion or Cadmium Red Light, Yellow Ochre and White. However, intead of Cadmium Red Light, Alex has substuted it with Winsor Red by Winsor and Newton. A much cheaper colour that uses a pigent called PYROLLE Red PY255.

This video is an add on to Alex's previous video on oil paints, in which he suggests some cheaper alternatives to expensive colours like Cadmium Red and Yellow.

To see Alex's previous video on oil paint, visit:
   • Oil Paints  What Colours and Which B...  

To see Alex's master copy of Juan De Pareja by Diego Velázquez, filmed entirely in real time, visit:
   • Portrait Painting Tutorial  Velázque...  

Alex Tzavaras is a contemporary realist artist offering portrait painting and alla prima oil painting tutorials. Alex teaches the traditional painting techniques artists used to draw and paint from life up until the start of the 20th century.