You can learn from the comfort of your own home in front of your computer!
No driving to classes, wasting gas!
Dear beginner/intermediate, and yes, long time artist.
Are you asking yourself these questions?
Are you tired of putting out one stroke paintings that resemble the starving artist's club? Or even the 30 minute wet-in-wet public television pieces using a house painting brush? You've got a great skill set, yet your work just doesn't stand out. It just looks like every body elses at the city market or local framers/gallery.
Are you ready to step up to the next level? To paint in oils like a professional?
To gain the recognition of your hard work ethic, your talents?
I've been in your shoes! I've looked at these paintings and said, I can see these are hand made, it is not a photograph, yet they look so real! How was it done. To paint in oils so that the picture looks life like!
You won't find the answer in your local art school. They don't have time to teach the old methods. They actually abhor the idea, thinking it is too restrictive to your free thinking.
Yet artist's and patrons of the arts are starving for this kind of information and artwork. People love realistic art!
I'm not saying modern, abstract art is bad. No way, some of the most thought provoking and intellectually stimulating work are from this genre.
But there is a great deal to be said for a fine illustration of the human body in motion, like you see in the Sistine Chapel on the ceilings.
Or the painting of a clump of grapes that makes your mouth literally water! They are sooo juicy, and ripe and ready to eat!
You bet!
It's in books, but the books are mostly
very old, and aren't well illustrated. You would also have to
understand the terminology. Yes, our English has changed from even 50
years ago! This then bogs you down, and gets you frustrated so you
quit. So do you figure out how to paint in oils like this?
What's the process?
It's
been around for over 400 years, and was developed by the Flemish
Masters. Later the Italians put their spin on it, but essentially it
remains the same.
Once you see the process, and learn some of the
terminology, you won't be bogged down. You'll memorize the process,
and it becomes second nature. Like riding a bike.
You ride the
bike to enjoy the scenery and area's that your travel, you don't think
about steering or pedaling (unless your going up hill!). You just don't
think about it once you've learned it.
The same with this
technique. Once learned, you concentrate on the bunch of grapes in
front of you, and create the masterpiece that makes your neighbors mouth
water when they come into your studio!
Are you ready for it?
I'm
going to tell you the process of how to paint in oils, and if you need
more information, I will expand on each step further within the link
below.
Now that's just the painting process.
Here are some additional general questions about oil painting that get answered within my lessons for you.
Composition, how do you know it's right?
What is oiling out?
what is glazing? scumbling?
what are these wooden "Key" things in the back of my canvas?
what are mediums?
Come on in! Join us in exploring this wonderful activity of oil painting.
Join us in the resurgence of classical painting and how to paint in oils and check out exactly how I create my paintings.
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