If you feel a craving for creativity and want to draw your own oil painting on canvas, it is not necessary to restrain their desires!Instead, try to make it a reality.Start to paint at any age it's too late!
Where to start?
First you need to decide on the idea.What exactly would you like to portray in his film?Perhaps you live in an extremely picturesque location, and want to capture on canvas the beauty of the surrounding landscape?Too many amateur artists are beginning to write just such a painting in oil on canvas.Landscapes pretty well even in very inexperienced painters.
More than anything, you beauty delights flower bouquets in a vase?In fact, what could be more beautiful than flowers!In addition, to draw a picture, it is not necessary to go to the open-air, you can start painting at home.Still life - so called these paintings in oil on canvas.Flowers perfectly work out most of the beginners.But portraits - is the most difficult genres of painting.To begin with they are not worth it.
What will it take to work?
oil painting requires serious preparation.You will have to go to the art gallery, buy there special paint and solvent for them, brush, charcoal, primed cardboard or canvas stretched on a frame, easel.
Oil paints are sold in tubes and are quite expensive.You can buy them in a small set that will be much more economical.Moreover, such cartons are already selected basic colors.Belisle should be reserved separately when you start to paint in oil on canvas, you will realize that this paint is consumed much faster than others.
Brushes better to choose different sizes, with natural bristles or a column, flat and round.Thin brush required for the study of small parts, wide and flat - for the background and initial podmalevki, well, average - for basic operation.Coal required for the application of the outline.Sketchbook is required for storage of paints and palette, it is convenient to attach the sub-frame for a painting in oil on canvas.
process work - the main stages
Suppose you decided to create a still life with flowers.They put a beautiful bouquet in the vase, dismantled sketchbook and fixed it on canvas size.Now we need to take artistic charcoal and light strokes to designate a white canvas contours of the future of still life.
underpainting Next comes a time that is determined by the basic color spots and shadows.Underpainting be performed easily, and the ink at this stage should be applied to a substrate in thin layers.Give work well to dry for a couple of days, and then proceed to detail.This is the most interesting and creative part of the process.The final step - study of the smallest details, so-called "revival" of the picture.
Do not rush!In order to complete his painting in oil on canvas, you may need a few days - it's a fact.
You need to know the technique of oil painting is complicated enough, and do not worry if not all will turn out the way you want.Persistence and labor required to give positive results over time.
How to make the finished work?
When your job is ready, let it dry and then carefully cover the finished product lacquer in several layers.Each layer before applying the next need to give a good dry.
sure to complete your picture frame or a baguette.Baguette is best to order in a special workshop.It offers a choice of different designs and advise how best to choose.From design pattern depends very much, so try to take this final stage with all the responsibility.
