Exploring Oil Painting For The Serious Beginner

A Simple and Thorough Introduction to Painting with Oils

What you'll learn

How to copy a simple, realistic image from a photo onto a canvas in oil paint.

How to accurately mix colors for this specific class.

How to paint in oils to replicate certain textures: the soft, folded cloth and the hard, matte eggshell, both with a strong light source and high contrast.

How to manage palette space and maintain cleanliness for a frustration-free and low-toxicity oil painting experience.

How to set-up, clean and care for oil painting supplies.

Requirements

No painting experience is necessary. We will walk through everything from start to finish, taking things slowly in short sections, allowing students an easier experience in pausing and reflecting as desired.

Description

In this course, we will work from start to finish to create a beautiful, realistic oil painting of an egg on bright red cloth. We will begin by prepping our work area, talking about materials and how to use them, discussing a positive mindset and drawing our image in pencil.Next, we will mix all our colors for accuracy to match our photographic image and discuss having a good quantity to last between painting sessions, which may be up to a week or more apart. Then we will put our first layers of oil paint on, starting with the background, then moving onto the egg. We will apply the paint on the background in a rudimentary way, then go back and refine and blend the colors. We will do the same with the egg. From here, we will break for several days to a week or more…as long as it takes for our first layer to completely dry. Then we will apply our second layer for increased opacity and richness of color, as well as a new opportunity to blend and adjust colors, textures and edges as we see fit. Finally, we will make finishing touches, sign our paintings and enjoy the feeling of having new knowledge and experience with this incredibly versatile medium.Specific skills you will gain in this class are how to:mix colors to match the colors in a realistic referencemix enough paint so that you're less likely to run outmanage your palette space for cleanliness and control to limit frustrationcreate an effective underpaintinglayer over your underpainting for richness, opacity and textureapply paint for different textureslayer oil for richness and texturecreate different shadows and highlightsidentify different shadows and highlights as they fall on a three-dimensional objectThank you so much for joining me on this journey. Enjoy!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction and Set-Up

Lecture 1 Welcome!

Lecture 2 Materials

Lecture 3 Drawing the Image on Canvas

Lecture 4 Set-Up Palette

Lecture 5 Mindset

Section 2: Underpainting for the Background

Lecture 6 Mixing the Light Red

Lecture 7 Mixing the Medium Red

Lecture 8 Mixing the Darkest Red

Lecture 9 Painting the Background Lights

Lecture 10 Painting the Background Mediums

Lecture 11 Painting the Background Darks

Lecture 12 Adding White to Enhance the Lights

Lecture 13 Adjusting and Blending

Section 3: Underpainting for the Egg

Lecture 14 Mixing Local Color

Lecture 15 Mixing Form Shadow

Lecture 16 Mixing Core Shadow

Lecture 17 Mixing Reflected Lights

Lecture 18 Basic Underpainting for the Egg

Lecture 19 Blending Egg Underpainting Colors

Section 4: Transition Between Paint Sessions

Lecture 20 Cleaning Up For Now

Lecture 21 Letting Your Painting Dry

Section 5: Second Egg Layer

Lecture 22 Introduction to Second Egg Layer

Lecture 23 Painting the Second Egg Layer

Section 6: Second Background Layer

Lecture 24 Introduction to Second Background Layer

Lecture 25 Enriching Background Lights

Lecture 26 Enriching Background Mediums

Lecture 27 Enriching Background Darks

Section 7: Finishing Touches

Lecture 28 Adjusting Background Lights

Lecture 29 Adjusting Background Darks

Lecture 30 Adjusting the Egg

Lecture 31 Optional Signature

Section 8: Recap

Lecture 32 Congratulations!

Beginning oil painters who have never painted before and want to learn good habits and effective techniques from the very beginning.,People who have dabbled in oil paint but become frustrated, and want some concrete tools and techniques to improve their experience and enhance their knowledge.