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how to create this effect and colour with oil
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<div>does anyone know how to achieve this type of effect with oil? thanks
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If I understand the question, and I'm not entirely sure I do, the effect - which seems to be of a darker area on flesh, leaving aside certain issues with this image (e.g. it looks like a manipulated photograph) - would be achieved by soft blending with sable brushes.
But you may need to be a touch more specific.
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The colour you could acheive by trial and error. Look , think about what it might be and mess around on spare bits of paper. It looks to me a bit like one of those "what the Butler saw" pics from late Victorian times. The white slashes can be acheived by exactly that...white streaks across the whole thing when you have more or less finished it. Not easy to see.
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It would be useful to know what YOU know about this picture - is it a painting at all? Is it in fact a photographic image which has been added to or manipulated either with paint or with photographic techniques? If it's painted, and I'm not at all sure that it is, there's yellow in it - plus green; and how the grey was arrived at is anyone's guess, but green can be greyed with red.
I believe that this is a stage in a photographic process rather than a painting, from all I can see of it. The white streaks could be achieved by scratching into film, but that's outside of my area of expertise. They don't look as if they were achieved with paint, but if they were, a stiff hoghair has been used to achieve the scratchy effect.
It would be helpful to know where you found this image. It wouldn't be impossible to achieve something very like it in oil, but it wouldn't be easy either: the picture is so soft that I suspect either the whole image or the base of it is actually an old photograph.