The Bitumen Technique by Thomas Garner

Give the very final glaze "Bitumen" to your figure painting to bring the harmony and warmth

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In this course, you will learn how to apply the very last glaze "Bitumen" to your figure painting. The Bitumen is the final glaze you apply after your painting is completely dry. This layer brings your figure painting the harmony and warmth and is very easy to do!

Students Will Learn

  • Venetian, Renaissance painting technique
  • Technique that Rembrandt used
  • How to apply "Bitumen" layer
  • Untold story of the technique


Your Instructor


Thomas Garner
Thomas Garner

Thomas Garner studied at UCSD at a time when painting and drawing, in the traditional sense, were not even offered in the Visual Arts curriculum. His artistic foundation is built on Conceptual Art and semiology. Later Garner went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice where he learned to paint and found a strong nexus between craft and concept. "My painting style started out as photo-realistic, but with time I learned the craft of the masters so that now I am able to create a unified mechanism between technique and content, painting about painting. I strive to learn everything I can to about every aspect of figurative painting that has brought me explore live figure painting, plein air, still life and portraiture."


Course Curriculum


  The Bitumen Painting Technique
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