Oil painting steps for beginners

Oil painting has long been a familiar type of painting for those who love art, especially painting. So what is oil painting? What are the basic steps of oil painting? In this article, we invite readers to explore together.

What is oil painting?

Oil painting is a type of painting made from pigments, usually in the form of dry powders that have been thoroughly ground with linseed oil, walnut oil, safflower oil or poppy oil. There are many talented and outstanding painters and painters who have succeeded in the field of oil painting, world famous that perhaps we all know, that is Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Vemeer or Vincent Vangogh … Their oil paintings have become famous artistic masterpieces and entered the hearts of many people in the afterlife.
But perhaps, no matter how talented a painter is, they will have to start from the first small steps. A beginner to draw a beautiful oil painting, needs to go through many different steps that not everyone can know if they have not learned. Let’s learn the steps to oil painting for beginners.

1. Find the direction of the light source for the picture

Before painting you must determine the direction of the light source of the picture, just like when drawing the sun, when dawn must be east at sunrise and sunset must be west when the sun goes down. In addition, you must determine the dark lines and light lines, determine the drawing subject. That way you can determine where is the light direction, bright spot, and dark spot for the picture to be drawn.

2. Draw a sketch

Use a pencil or other point-to-point pen to sketch out the first strokes of the subject’s position, light direction, highlights and shadows. In this picture you need to calculate and divide the distance between objects, apply logic to create the overall composition of the picture in a reasonable way. Then create a background layer on the surface of the paper, and that color layer should be large enough to cover the area to be painted. The background color layer should not be too thick to be able to paint the details later.

3. Mix paint colors

This is the step that can be said to be the most difficult for beginner painters, because it can be seen that, when mixing paint colors, it is also when you mix the soul of the picture. Oil paint colors need to match the drawing theme. If we need to draw a clear blue sky, we are very prone to tinting colors that are not the same as the actual sky blue, but often will be lighter or darker. Or the color of the sun, too, to create a sunny effect with different light and dark rays, it is not possible to use only one yellow color. Color mixing is not an easy step, this depends on your skills and ability to perceive colors.

4. Identify the highlight of the picture

To be able to determine the point of view of the picture, you must first understand the subject you want to draw so that you can have the appropriate ideas to click on that subject. Because a picture without accents will be judged as faded, unable to enter people’s hearts. To make a point, when you draw, you must determine which color is first and which color is last.

Hope you have taken the first steps to familiarize yourself with painting and know how to create a beautiful oil painting that always attracts viewers. Of course, to draw a beautiful picture, you need to learn and hone your painting ability, but with determination and effort, you can completely create beautiful oil paintings with your own style. your. Below, we would like to introduce some beautiful oil paintings from talented artists in Vietnam who have been introducing their beautiful art paintings on oilpaintings.art

 

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Wish you have a successful start with the path of painting!

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