Would it be a mistake if I use this half used cascade to do a new painting over it? Hi Will You are an amazing teacher and so generous in the way you share your knowledge. I am so keen to learn painting and also drawing…. Thank you again! Bless you. Hi Sharmini, the simple jug painting or the cherry still life are great tutorials to start with. Just found your utube tutorials and website!
Thanks for sharing your talent. Thanks Will for making this video and so much information available to the public. I am inspired by the teaching and videos you have put up. How helpful could you possibly be!???? I am deeply indebted to you for your help getting my creativity going and teaching me SO much.. How can i attach an image of the painting i did? Warmly, Diana V. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
Learn how your comment data is processed. Materials you will need: 10 x inch pre-primed canvas. Small for or dipper for diluting paint The Old Masters had it easy Painting was seen as a craft; you had an apprenticeship or trained in an Atelier workshop. Not just aesthetically but as a sign of power. This is why it is often referred to now as French Ultramarine. Too much choice These days choosing paints to start with can be a tough choice.
Apply a coloured ground. Step 2. Draw out the image. Step 3. Establish the darkest darks and lightest lights. Acrylic landscape painting- Free video Course Part 1 The video below shows the first steps I take to start the acrylic landscape painting. Jane 3 Dec Reply. Will Kemp 3 Dec Reply. Sandi Hester 5 Dec Reply. Will Kemp 5 Dec Reply.
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Hey Connie, Thanks so much for your message, so pleased you are finding time for your paintng. Clint 5 Jan Reply. Thanks again for the help. You really make it look easy and fun. Moving on to part 2….
Kate 18 Jan Reply. Will Kemp 18 Jan Reply. Hope this helps to explain it, Cheers, Will. Will Kemp 19 Jan Reply. Have a look through these articles: The secret of good composition Are you unwittingly committing a compositional cardinal sin?
How to draw perspective for beginners Hope they help, Cheers, Will. Hi Will , thank you very much this was very helpful. Jeff Redden 24 Jan Reply. Hope this helps, Will. Jeff Redden 25 Jan Reply. Laura 28 Jan Reply. Hi Will, I was wondering if you had any videos that would help me understand how to do an Impressionist still life painting?
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Orlando Morgan 3 Mar Reply. Will Kemp 3 Mar Reply. Hey Morgan, To answer your questions: Do you recommend doing the mixing on the stay wet palette or a hard one and then transfer to the stay wet? Will Kemp 4 Mar Reply. Cheers Orlando, enjoy experimenting! Jason 20 Mar Reply.
Will Kemp 20 Mar Reply. Leah 26 Mar Reply. Regards from Germany Leah. Will Kemp 28 Mar Reply. Kasia 16 Apr Reply. Best Regards Kasia. Will Kemp 16 Apr Reply. Hi Kasia, Nice to hear from you, there are no silly questions when starting painting! Kasia 17 Apr Reply. Elinor 21 Apr Reply. Will Kemp 21 Apr Reply. Ruchi 4 May Reply.
Will Kemp 7 May Reply. Hey Ruchi, Sounds like the painting should be put to the side as a tester and start the process again. Heather Gibbs 17 May Reply. Will Kemp 19 May Reply. Cheers Heather, pleased you stumbled upon the site and are enjoying the tutorials.
Sophia Farooqui 6 Aug Reply. Thank you Will for this wonderful website. Will Kemp 6 Aug Reply. Marietta 7 Aug Reply. Will Kemp 9 Aug Reply. Will Kemp 21 Aug Reply.
Tina 20 Oct Reply. Julie 19 Nov Reply. Will Kemp 19 Nov Reply. Avan 19 Dec Reply. Will Kemp 19 Dec Reply. Yes, that will give you similar bright purples when mixed with the ultramarine blue 2. Good luck with your painting, Cheers, Will. Meghna 19 Jan Reply. Will Kemp 23 Jan Reply. Chuck 1 Feb Reply. Will Kemp 3 Feb Reply. Hey Chuck, great to hear from you.
Lovely colours on the landscape painting, its got that real sense of light to it. Thanks for sharing Chuck, Cheers, Will. Christine Mackay 10 Feb Reply. What a great site so glad I found it. Will Kemp 10 Feb Reply. Will Kemp 27 Apr Reply. DeBi Tucker 11 Jul Reply. Will Kemp 12 Jul Reply. Hi Mr. Kemp I want to start whit this but I have a little problem. I wait a your answer ASAP.
Will Kemp 19 Jul Reply. Pam 19 Aug Reply. Will Kemp 19 Aug Reply. Hi Pam, yes in a pinch thinned black paint would be okay, Cheers, Will. Gabriel 17 Sep Reply. Thank you and Hello from Canada friend! Turpentine, along with other solvents, should NOT be washed down the sink as it is bad for the environment. Please see website below or you can download the MSDS for more information. If you are using oils, it is possible to paint without any thinner.
Just use paint from the tube. This was incredibly helpful as someone totally unexperienced with oil painting! Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Pin 2K. Share This guide covers most of the fundamental areas of oil painting to get you started. Why Oil Painting? Here are some reasons: They are versatile. You can vary the drying time and consistency of your paint dramatically using paint thinners and additional oil.
This allows you to work with a wide range of painting techniques , including blending, glazing and scumbling. They were favored by the all-time greats of painting. It is hard to argue the downside of using oil paints when so many amazing artists used them to such success. Oil paintings seem to be held in higher regard by art collectors compared to acrylic paintings there are some exceptions to this of course. What Is Oil Paint? Oil Painting Supplies.
Here is a basic set of oil painting supplies and equipment: A range of small to large paintbrushes designed for oil painting. Hog hair and decent synthetic brushes are great for oil painting. You should read my guide here on artist paint brushes for more information. An easel. A palette. A basic palette of paints discussed below. A surface to paint on discussed below.
Odorless solvent. Linseed oil. Paper towel for wiping your brushes. Oil Painting Color Palette. Here is my current color palette: Ultramarine blue Cobalt blue Cadmium yellow Cadmium yellow light Yellow ochre Cadmium orange Cadmium red Alizarin crimson Raw umber or burnt sienna Titanium white You should also check out this post I wrote about the Zorn palette.
Surfaces To Paint On. There are two options with canvas: Stretched canvas panels : Canvas stretched over a frame. Oil Painting "Rules". In oil painting, there are some "rules" which you should follow to avoid your paint cracking. Oil Painting Techniques. Here are the techniques which I use most frequently: Scumbling - This is a dry-brush technique which involves gently dragging your brush over the canvas to produce a broken color effect.
Thin washes with solvent - By mixing oil paint with solvent, you can produce a very thin wash of transparent color which dries fast. This is how I usually start my paintings. Multi-colored brush strokes - If you leave various colors unmixed on your brush, you can create these beautiful multi-colored streaks.
Oil Painting Process. Here is my general approach for completing an oil painting: First, I stain the canvas with a thin wash of paint plus solvent. Forth, I refine what is on the canvas until there are no more problems to solve. Here is a summary of what I do after I have finished an oil painting: I leave it on the easel for a few days to see if I am truly happy with the result.
I wait for an overcast day to photograph the painting outside. I leave the painting somewhere safe to dry out of any direct sunlight and preferably away from dust. I made the transition from painting abstracts to more figurative work this year, and your guidance was just what I needed to get on the right track.
Just excellent. Hi Robyn, great work on your portrait, so pleased you found the tutorial helpful in making the transition to more figurative work, the burnt sienna underpainting has worked really well and love the vivid colours juxtaposed with the subtlety of the skin tones.
Hello Will, Such a great web site proving to be very helpful to beginners like me. A great service to Art!!! Keep it going…. I would also like to seek you for an advice. I had done a portrait with oils, about 2 months ago. I had not Varnished it For reasons — lack of time and lack of material. However, i had let the paining get sun dried for a week, following which, was made to dry inside a room for close to 2 full months.
Now, am back after travel and i see, dust accumulated on the surface of the painting when i closely observe. It kind of worries me deeply and wonder what should i do, to remove of those minute dust particle which has found its way, though the painting was preserved in a room. What would you advise me? Please, suggest. I look forward to hearing you response.. Thanks much in advance. Hi this is beautifully crafted articlE which I understood well and produced my own black and white painting that im incredibly happy with.
My problem is moving on to colour. Every time I try I destroy what is a great underpainting and feel utterly overwhelmed. Please could you add to this a similar tutorial which is as logical and clear that deals with using colour without a massive palette or esoteric language and ill explained processes that so many books and videos seem to use. Thank you for what you have shown us here. Hi Luke, really pleased you enjoyed the series, you might find the colour portrait course of interest that looks at developing subtle skin tone mixes with acrylics but can be easily adapted to oil painting.
I demonstrate with a limited palette and then slowly introduce a more extending palette. Thanks Will I am watching the colour portrait series righ now and it is excellent! So many books suggest wierd and wonderful colours that lead me to complete confusion. It is such a relief for me to find clear concise teaching that I can actually exactly follow. Also possibly a list of of uk suppliers that stock the materials you suggest.
Neither of the two big art shops in Manchester have Golden Acrylics. Thank you so much. Just try working through the portraits with a super limited palette, even just a monochrome in burnt umber can teach you loads and build your confidence to slowly introduce more colours into the palette.
Dear Will, I am dumbfounded at the simplicity, clarity and the beauty of this lesson in oil painting. I wish to thank you for this. I have always enjoyed your tutorials immensely. I know I am sort of a mixed up painter who gets pulled easily in all the directions and, consequently, gets no where. I seem to keep getting in and out of these. Whenever I see a nice painting or a sketch, I want to follow it, but soon enough, comes another nice painting that distracts me and I wish to follow that.
And that is how it goes on with me. But, it is OK. Kindest regards! Pleased you enjoyed the lesson Chander, just concentrating on one thing in your painting is the best way to progress, working in black and white or monochrome can really help keep the process simple. I had no idea where to start with oils but this guide is brilliant, I have improved so much from when I first tried to paint a portrait a few months ago. Thanks a lot for helping me :.
I felt like your comments was about me, cuz it is exactly how I feel about being tired of making drawing and take oil painting as a new challenge. Best, Pacchiella. Good one Pacchiella, really hope you find the tutorial of help in making the transition to oils.
Good day sir, i really appreciate all your post and this has been a blessing for me and also a great privilege for me to learn, for this i say a very big thank you. Please i want to learn more by receiving mail from you sir thank you sir. So pleased you found it helpful Mary, hope your portraits are going well. Hi Will, I feel hard to paint shadows. In the edges my merging of shadows with the light shades is not working very well. Hi Marina, try working the shadow tones and the light tones next together without blending at all to start with, and then just use one blending stroke with a dry brush, less can be more when blending oils to keep the tones separate.
Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart,am not really a paimter but I love to learn the art,reading your article inspires me more,I hope I can learn more from it and really find it helpful. I will surely do my part from what Ive read from. Could I please ask you about the tentative value on a 9 step vale-scale of the toning of the canvas that you have used here? I have seen some artists prefer a very light tone ,just to cover the white. Pencils and charcoal have a tendency to rise through the layers of paints above it through a chemical process.
This is why it looks as though the paint is becoming more transparent. In fact, it is the graphite molecules working its way through the actual painting to the top and not our ability to see through the paint. Maybe this test will be better with an archival waterproof pigment liner? Hi T Kim, you might find this article of interest about the refractive index of linseed oil affecting the transparency of oil paints over time. Dear Will Kemp, I am 56 yrs scientist from mumbai India,, doing oil portraits on hobby level.
Your demonstration is just excellent,, I have not come across more beautiful, clearer , step by step demonstration lecture than this.
Though I was doing some of the things unknowingly now I have better understanding of the same and I am sure it will help me to enhance my work tremendously. Thanks and regards,, sarita. Thanks very much Dr. Hello, Will! First of all, let me appreciate you for having so much patience in giving replies to all art lovers. I feel it is more tedious than painting a subject. Your article inspires me to paint a portrait but I lost touch in painting since I left it for 30 years from now.
Now I am 70 years old and inspired by your above tutorial would like to paint a portrait. I am your subscriber and want to post my portrait for your critiques. Will you please do this favour to me, if so please tell me how and where to send my portrait. Thanking you in advance. God bless you. I love your website! Having a blast. So: I love portraiture, and am wondering which course would be worthwhile if I work with Water Miscible Oils…SHould I purchase the acrylic tutorial, or the oil one?
Thanks for answering my question. I looked at and read over thirty sources most of which contradicted each other. Then I came across you on the web. Thanks Rick, very kind of you to say so and glad the courses and articles have been helping with your portraits. Hi Will, I have always loved drawing people but never painted before. Your website looks brilliant. I have already drawn a rough sketch of my subject and will be starting on the first stage this week. Your technique seems to be the right one for me.
I have always had trouble with portraits, but your example has stirred up my imagination and my ambition to do it well. Good one Cayuqui, really hope you find the techniques helpful in developing your portraits. Will, this is an extremely helpful website.
I have picked oil paints rather painting after about 28 years. Your website has infused that confidence back…not sure that will translate back on to the canvas or not :. Great technique.
Easy to understand. Thank you for your precious time. I am just three years into oils. Thank you for the detailed yet simple instructions. I will start now! Now I an just painting for learning the various skills to make great portraits. I find hands hard to set up the hand positions angles and number of fingers etc. Hey Greg, if you start with the black and white method it can teach a lot about building up form and structure of the face and then slowly start to introduce colours.
Firstly, what a fantastic set of guides! I was wondering if you could use the same techniques light, shadow etc that you use in a portrait when deciding to try a full figure or even a landscape painting? Hi Alastair, pleased you enjoyed the series, yes the same method would work equally well on full figure, landscapes or still lives. Could any of those jars be used for sizing,gesso, or grounding my canvases for oil painting?
Hate to waste…. Hi Linda, yes, you can use acrylic as a ground for oil painting, just make sure to tighten the canvas after you apply the ground. Hi Will, Your Series guide has been fantastic, clear and simple for a beginner like me. Glad that I found this site, after struggling to get some clarity on portrait oil painting. Thanks for sharing this knowledge. Is this approach correct? This post has been so informative, so thank you so much for that.
I love the format and how succinctly you relay so much info.. I have young kids around my studio and it just seems like the most straight forward way to paint without fumes. Would you agree? Or have any other suggestions? Without cuting the oil to make it leaner you would only be able to vary drying time using leaner pigments or thinner applications. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Portraits can seem like the toughest subject to crack and you can easily be disheartened by your efforts.
Gunner Dave 5 Apr Reply. Will, what can I say, another great post! Please forgive the amateur philosophy, but this is something I often ponder when working from photos … All the best, Dave. Will Kemp 6 Apr Reply. Hope this helps, Will.
Gunner Dave 6 Apr Reply. Will, Very interesting to hear that even though you are obviously a great photographer you see painting as a superior way of making an image. Thanks, Dave. Gunner Dave 7 Apr Cheers Will, Dave. Will Kemp 8 Apr Thanks Dave, Bring on the eggs! Palak 31 Dec Reply. Will Kemp 31 Dec Reply. Maddie 18 Oct Reply. Will Kemp 22 Oct Reply.
A greeting from Spain. Will Kemp 5 Apr Reply. Hi Mario, Looking forward to working with you, glad you enjoyed the first post.
ML 6 Apr Reply. David A. Hello Will, I am a year-old artist ,and have been reading your post for while now. Will Kemp 13 Apr Reply. Hey David, Great to hear the posts have been helping your painting. To answer your questions, I heard that the older and more beat up a brush is the softer it is. Hi Will, Thanks for answering my questions. The understanding brushes post has helped me.
Hi David, Glad the post helped, Will. Reinhard 8 May Reply. Just wanted to thank you for your inspiration and help. Cheers, Reinhard. Will Kemp 8 May Reply. Hi Reinhard, Just starting is the best thing you can do, you really will learn loads through the process. Love to see your results, Thanks, Will. Mario 11 Jul Reply.
Thank you very much. Will Kemp 11 Jul Reply. Hey Mario, Nice to hear from you, great to hear you are enjoying the brushes. Thanks, Will. This refund is available if you request it within 30 days of your Class purchase.
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