Saturday, October 28, 2017

How to Oil Paint on Canvas

To Oil Paint on Canvas, you have to buy good quality oil painting materials, the best you can afford. After that, Sketch a "notan" of the painting in your sketchbook or on scrap paper with a gray pen and a black one or a pencil and a pen using the pencil as the gray. Using charcoal or the pencil, you need to make a value drawing in your sketchbook. Then, Squeeze out a little of the paint on your palette and mix your colors. Next, Paint the color study "Alla Prima." Forth, Draw the outline using a soft pencil or a thin stick of charcoal. After that, Prepare some oil in a cup and some thinner in another one. Then, Put a small dab of Burnt Sienna on your palette. Next, Remember the rule "Fat Over Lean." Forth, Block in the colors in general for major areas first and add a little more paint to make details lighter or darker, redder or yellower or bluer. You may paint all day, fool around with it, go to bed, put an empty box over the palette so that your cat won't walk in it, start over tomorrow and keep making changes while it's wet. Besides, use the palette knife to scrape off whole areas of it before it dries and start over. Forth, Leave it to dry. Remember that One of the traditional Old Masters techniques doesn't rely much on brush textures. Once you finish a day's painting session, you can clean your brushes by dipping them in the thinner and then use the painting rag to squeeze the paint out of them. After that, Store wet paintings somewhere safe that's free of dust, dark and cool if possible. With a "Gallery" canvas which is an inch and a half deep, you don't need to frame an oil painting. Last, Wait at least a month after the painting is touch dry to use retouch varnish and give the painting a temporary shiny and finished look.