Several Oil Painting Lessons and exercises, each to help you become a better painter.Listed here are a couple of oil painting lessons, exercises and tips that will help you accomplish your painting goals!I've added a new lesson for learning from the master's. It is a technique that has been in use for hundreds of years and is practiced in every major metropolitan museum up to today's time! It will help you too! Click here to begin learning a time honored tradition in learning from the masters by copying famous paintings. You'll see why those folks have all that gear set up in the museums and look like they are having so much FUN! Your gonna find a table of contents box that has several links to various lessons within it. Because these are kinda stand alone lessons separate from learning the Flemish technique, I've bundled them here. Besides the many oil painting lessons, I also have drawing lessons and exercises, to some very basic art instructions. I've just included an article on Oil Painting Basics that you find an easier starting point if you are a Beginner! Now, if this still is a bit too much at one time, let me recommend a great coarse. Maybe you need a lot of help? Beginners oil painting guide. It also makes for a great gift idea for someone just starting out!
As you probably see, this page is a launching point for a number of other oil painting lessons that stand on their own. Check out this article to see if your painting will stand up to a judges merit! Oil painting lessons on the main methods of applying paint.Here's our main article:Before the twentieth century artist's were trained as an apprentice in a strict tradition. Most artist's had very little exposure to alternative methods. The apprentice was taught the method of the Master painter, and in their own time, after years of success, would begin to develop their own unique style without much deviation from what they were previously taught. Eventually, more self expression was allowed, and in today's time, we are quite spoilt by the many choices, and this can hinder our own progress. So, to bring some clarity to the issue, lets simplify the ways of applying paint to 3 main methods. The Transparent Method The transparent method starts from the 15th century. Flemish pioneers of oil paintings used oil-rich transparent glazes over a pale ground. Light falls through the glazed color, reflecting back off the ground in a similar way to sunlight goes through stained glass. This method is like watercolors in that the layers are built up gradually. A great deal of the color mixing can take place in the overlaying of one color on top of another. An example would be a first glaze of blue, and after allowed to dry, then a rich glaze of yellow on top will produce a luminous green that is unattainable with any other method or medium. The Opaque Method Most modern techniques include this method of applying paint. Physically mixing of paint to create the color, and placing this color directly to the support for an immediate and solid painted stroke. The use of a solid opaque paint layer dates back to the 17th Century. Some artist's would work from dark ground up through the light colors. Some would work from a middle ground down to darks and up to the lights. Using the opaque paints also allowed for impasto and brushwork to be very visible. The Opaque method can also be associated with Alla Prima form of painting. I have a little more information here on
alla prima, an oil painting process Most painters use this method. The idea of using deep transparent glazes for shadow work, with thicker, opaque light masses has been used shortly after oil painting became a standard medium in the late 15th century. It takes some skill to be able to move from transparent to opaque methods. But that's the idea behind these oil painting lessons and this website as a whole, to pull you up to a skill level that will allow you to do this without much thinking behind it! You just paint and enjoy the thrill of seeing your work being born on the canvas! Why is the combined method the most widely used. I believe it has something to do with getting the best of both methods. Your darks and mid-tones, half shadows, though dark, still glow with a luminous quality that no photograph or any other other painting technique can achieve. Your well light areas and highlights, because they are opaque and tend to extend beyond the canvas plane will pick up more light within the room, again achieving a sparkling effect that no other means can duplicate. To see for yourself, do visit a major museum and look for the Flemish Masters paintings to compare to other modern day works. The pieces are over 400 years old, and are rarely exceeded in beauty by other methods. Thanks for hanging in here and reading more about these oil painting lessons. We would love to see some of your work! Back to top of Oil Painting Lessons.
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