In this Alla Prima portrait painting tutorial, realist painter Alex Tzavaras shows you how to paint mouths, the key to capturing facial expressions.

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For Alex's previous demonstration featuring Naomi visit:
   • How to Paint Portraits of Women  

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The most importrant things you need to acheive in a portrait is the paint the facial expression. The facial expression shows us our subjects character and inner life and it's this emotional quality, that the viewer really responds to when they see a portrait painting. So in this oil painting tutorial Alex shows you how to paint facial expressions by painting the mouth, the facial feature that hold the key to capturing the expression

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