【Portrait Lay in Demo】Portrait Oil Painting Demo with Jun Leng

Chinese artist Leng Jun is the master of hyperrealism as he creates portraits that are startlingly close to real life. The skilled painter is very accomplished, but some of his best-known works are detailed oil paintings of women where everything is a perfect rendition of reality - down to the last wisp of hair.
Leng was born in 1963 and grew up during a time of great economic reform within his country which was known as the Opening of China. This massive cultural shift, along with the Western influences that it brought, found their way into his art and served as massive influences in his work.
Leng first became interested in painting at a very young age. His first experiments with oil painting happened when he was in middle school. While there weren’t readily available oil paints in China at the time, his friend was the one who gave him a couple of colors to play around with.
“For people like me who were born around the 1960s, we were teenagers at the time when we formed our worldview. That was a great opportunity. Looking back, reform and opening-up really saved the soul of our generation,” Leng said.
He added, “At the time, information coming from the West greatly contributed to the enlightenment of our people. It also laid a very solid foundation for my later creations.”
Leng was already a well-respected artist in the community prior to his 2004 oil painting entitled, “Mona Lisa” going viral. This work is a photorealistic portrait of a woman. Leng was inspired to base it off the principals of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting but depicted a modern-day woman instead. This portrait was followed up with a series of photorealistic portraits of women, each one more detailed than the last. One can grow a great appreciation for the brushstrokes that bring the portrait to life as they are so intricate and detailed.
Like all great art, it is not without some criticisms. There are those who still maintain that the works look too much like photographs. Leng maintains that the paintings won’t deceive anyone who manages to see them in person. It is also not his intent to compete with photography or imitates it, but instead, he is pushed to take his artistry to its absolute limit. By balancing the technical skill with the raw emotion of his work, Leng has been able to touch people around the world with his art.
Leng said to CGNT, “I want to push my painting skills to a higher level. What is the most difficult thing? To paint people. For example, still life or rusted metals, they’re not something we see every day. People deal with people the most and people are most familiar with people. To portray people and make others believe is the hardest thing.”
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[@massiveblackwood]

words cant describe how wonderful his talent is

[@rayeasummers9455]

I wish the closed captioning was available to understand what he was saying. That would've been helpful. What patience and skill to duplicate the texture and appearance of crocheted sweaters!!! He's a marvel!

[@chukukaogude5894]

I digital paint, I love watching these to see how the paint should behave so I can get similar results. I also learn a lot about the artists' process while watching it. I sometimes will try to incorporate it into my own process.

[@ForestFineART]

thanks for watching 💗

[@doddagopi4933]

I learnt few important things in oil painting from this & from other videos. It is good to use Fan brush only for smudging & merging. We have amazing brushes for details, high lights. FILBERT is the kind of brushes, not Fan ( but for large areas ). I am sorry to write this- Almost all oil painter of portraits - do not show the eye detailing in real life. There are skips & cuts - so are in this. Also, most artists are scared of Ornaments ( simple aor complex ) for their own reasons. Knife is a better tool for clothe in overall high lights & brightness but a Fan/ flat brush can add more value in the end - not in the beginning. It is a wate of time - glassware of time. These are personal opinions based on 100++ Oil paintings of inexpensive + the watching videos. Great job by the artist - Hats off.

[@ant8851]

Simply breath taking

[@benrose2413]

I couldn’t see if he used any other brushes. It looked like he was only using a fan brush and that truly blows my mind. I don’t really like his hyper realism stuff but these types of painting he does r incredible to me. Well done!

[@user-kc7xm9ij4l]

大師的畫畫功夫不得了

[@shart2206]

Beautiful

[@jorgemoraga7015]

hermoso!.. un maestro.. gracias por compartir..

[@ForestFineART]

Gracias por ver 💗

[@akigoldstein1681]

Please can you(uploader)…add English subtitles and upload again….so more of the world can learn from this master?

[@LaoZi2023]

What he said in the first part of this video was that Chinese traditional painting was different from oil painting, in that in Chinese traditional painting you want to outline the subject first, then lay in the color. But in oil painting, you do the outine and the coloring at the same time. As you can see in this video how he lays it all in together.

[@paintingswork9714]

Wonderful work❤❤❤

[@ForestFineART]

Thanks so much ❤️

[@lichyn6907]

冷軍可晝一些古裝衣服的仕女？或古代英雄哲學家？太多材料可以晝！你會不朽的！

[@Rafaeldeimperial]

🔴 definitivamente superó Leonardo da Vinci

[@Keedop]

Master Best vary thanks rub

[@ForestFineART]

Thanks ❤️🌹❤️

[@rina4407]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Sirius-me5zy]

The background music are choatic

[@williamruiz5928]

Music is OK, he has an exelent talent you never will have.......

[@nguyentai464]

anyone has this in subtitle ?

[@scjz6997]

Amazing

[@user-tk9dw8qh5n]

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[@derankweert]

Backgroud music terrible. Painting is grand master.

[@sweechenho3503]

Can't watched it clearly,it was too far away.

[@rayeasummers9455]

I've seen this video before. There's a tension between the girl and painter. She does not like him and is almost hostile or terrified of him, and he evidently began making a more accurate depiction of her, you can see it in an earlier clip of the video, which he changed. You can actually see his final depiction is not an accurate portrayal of her face at all, and in fact not even the same skin tone, face shape or anything. Interesting, and somewhat disheartening.