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Quick Alla Prima (wet on wet paint) speed painting. It should be noted the paint is still wet (if you can't tell), but when it dries I will get an actual scan.
Put in the "NOT A PHOTO" as the thumbnail may be mistaken for such.
Media: Oil on Canvas
Size: 5"x7"
Date: 2015
Enjoy *Grin*
Put in the "NOT A PHOTO" as the thumbnail may be mistaken for such.
Media: Oil on Canvas
Size: 5"x7"
Date: 2015
Enjoy *Grin*
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Eagle
Size 600 x 428px
File Size 68.1 kB
The shiny spots are a little distracting, so I think it will look better! I totally understand posting this version though. I love sharing what I make ^^
Between your work and the lovely Plein air pieces Caelansky has been posting I am feeling a serious itch to paint. It's showing in my recent work. Digital painty goodness *laugh*
I've got some ancient acrylic paint (although being bulk packaged and a good brand, it's still usable. Not bad considering it's 15 years old haha). I never learned how to prep a surface properly or what materials to use, seal.. I watched some other students work with watercolor, but for whatever reason we never got to use them. We did lino cutting, figure drawing and mixed media work and used acrylics on cardstock (hello ripples) and press-board of all things. I've always wanted to learn how to do it 'right' with oils, acrylics and watercolor, so to speak.
Living in a liberal arts town you'd think I'd get my butt back to school
Between your work and the lovely Plein air pieces Caelansky has been posting I am feeling a serious itch to paint. It's showing in my recent work. Digital painty goodness *laugh*
I've got some ancient acrylic paint (although being bulk packaged and a good brand, it's still usable. Not bad considering it's 15 years old haha). I never learned how to prep a surface properly or what materials to use, seal.. I watched some other students work with watercolor, but for whatever reason we never got to use them. We did lino cutting, figure drawing and mixed media work and used acrylics on cardstock (hello ripples) and press-board of all things. I've always wanted to learn how to do it 'right' with oils, acrylics and watercolor, so to speak.
Living in a liberal arts town you'd think I'd get my butt back to school
I have a few tubes of old windsor & newton Acrylics from the late 80's, I have had them 20 years and other then being a little thick they still work.
Preparing a surface: Apply thin coats of Gesso as smooth as possible then smooth more with a plaster knife (you get those are hardware stores), wait 24 hours to dry, then sand to desired smoothness. Most canvas and panels come pre-gessoed, but only the cheap econo/student ones need more priming.
I recommend Ampersand Gesso Boards (affordable, archival, good surface tooth).
Tone the surface: Use a neutral color (Burnt umber, or 6, or 7 value grey) thinned heavily, and apply it to the white surface till you take the bite of the white off the canvas. This will help you apply the correct value of colors.
Materials: With acrylics all you need is:
1 - Graphite or Charcoal Pencil (2B hardness)
2 - Canvas, Panel, Wood, Watercolor Paper, any flat surface that can hold a wet medium.
3 - Watercolor/Acrylic soft bristle brushes (I recommend Filberts, and Rounds), sizes 10/0, 0, and 2 rounds. 0, 2, and 4 Filberts. And maybe a 1 or 2 inch flat painters soft bristle brush. You don't need expensive brushes, in fact I recommend against it. Acrylics will over time ruin brushes.
4 - Acrylic Paints, I use Golden Acrylic Paints (High end stuff), once you use those you will never want to use anything else. Avoid "Student Quality", yes its cheaper but it fades, cracks, and takes more paint to do what you can with Artist or Studio Quality. All you need is Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red Medium, Primary Yellow (Or Cadmium Yellow Lt), and Burnt Umber. With those colors you can mix 90% of all other colors.
Expanded Palette: Cerulean Blue or Phatho Blue, Cad Red Lt. Cad Yellow Medium, Raw Umber, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Cad Orange, Sap Green, Viridian Green.
5 - 2 Glasses of Water (One for Cleaning Brushes, one for clean water to thin your paint)...
Optional - Matt or Gloss Acrylic Medium (to thin paints, and even out the surface), Gloss Acrylic Varnish (To seal, protect, and finish. Though acrylics by there nature do not need varnish).
Much of what you do with acrylics can be applied to oils (Not all).
There are numerous resources for learning to paint. There are not many for acrylics, but if you study oils those can be applied to acrylics. Be wary of most acrylic painting lessons, most people think acrylics is only good for modern art techniques, and thus is useless information for anyone over the age of grade school.
*Grin*
Preparing a surface: Apply thin coats of Gesso as smooth as possible then smooth more with a plaster knife (you get those are hardware stores), wait 24 hours to dry, then sand to desired smoothness. Most canvas and panels come pre-gessoed, but only the cheap econo/student ones need more priming.
I recommend Ampersand Gesso Boards (affordable, archival, good surface tooth).
Tone the surface: Use a neutral color (Burnt umber, or 6, or 7 value grey) thinned heavily, and apply it to the white surface till you take the bite of the white off the canvas. This will help you apply the correct value of colors.
Materials: With acrylics all you need is:
1 - Graphite or Charcoal Pencil (2B hardness)
2 - Canvas, Panel, Wood, Watercolor Paper, any flat surface that can hold a wet medium.
3 - Watercolor/Acrylic soft bristle brushes (I recommend Filberts, and Rounds), sizes 10/0, 0, and 2 rounds. 0, 2, and 4 Filberts. And maybe a 1 or 2 inch flat painters soft bristle brush. You don't need expensive brushes, in fact I recommend against it. Acrylics will over time ruin brushes.
4 - Acrylic Paints, I use Golden Acrylic Paints (High end stuff), once you use those you will never want to use anything else. Avoid "Student Quality", yes its cheaper but it fades, cracks, and takes more paint to do what you can with Artist or Studio Quality. All you need is Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red Medium, Primary Yellow (Or Cadmium Yellow Lt), and Burnt Umber. With those colors you can mix 90% of all other colors.
Expanded Palette: Cerulean Blue or Phatho Blue, Cad Red Lt. Cad Yellow Medium, Raw Umber, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Cad Orange, Sap Green, Viridian Green.
5 - 2 Glasses of Water (One for Cleaning Brushes, one for clean water to thin your paint)...
Optional - Matt or Gloss Acrylic Medium (to thin paints, and even out the surface), Gloss Acrylic Varnish (To seal, protect, and finish. Though acrylics by there nature do not need varnish).
Much of what you do with acrylics can be applied to oils (Not all).
There are numerous resources for learning to paint. There are not many for acrylics, but if you study oils those can be applied to acrylics. Be wary of most acrylic painting lessons, most people think acrylics is only good for modern art techniques, and thus is useless information for anyone over the age of grade school.
*Grin*
Awe thanks, didn't expect you to go through all that effort for me
I've done a few pieces on Bristol and canvas.. board? I think. it's like 1/8 thick and canvasy texture. Cheap, basically. This one was acrylic and prisma color marker on Bristol. Not the best thing, but I've made far worse haha http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14961648
Paints are Talens Amsterdam brand.. I brought them over from Europe. Even dealt with TSA.. apparently carrying a large container of white stuff on a plane is suspicious Pretty much your average college student brand. I used to have Talens oil pastels and watercolor too.
I've got titanium white, oxide black (we did a silhouette project), burnt umber, some shade of deep yellow (ochre maybe), ultramarine and cadmium red. So we're good there.
Seems like I've been on the right track, just missed some basics in the how-to department. I had a fantastic art teacher in high school.. I practically lived in a little corner of that classroom. I skipped art for a more 'sensible direction' in college.. becoming a teacher instead, which surprisingly still entailed a lot of art. I sucked at actually being a teacher, so dropped that plan. Two years later I entered into an arts college, got past the entry exams (which included several art projects) and then decided to move to the US instead *laugh* That's been a little over 10 years ago.. Just been doing my own thing from there, learning through practice.
I've always gotten the feeling that acrylics were looked down on, being basically the Wal-Mart of paints. I have a lot of silly hangups that I have no clue where I got them from. Like.. good artists use oil, only crappy students use acrylics. But I suppose starting with cheaper paints makes you less freaked out about screwing up.
Just gotta go and do it!
Thank you, again.
I've done a few pieces on Bristol and canvas.. board? I think. it's like 1/8 thick and canvasy texture. Cheap, basically. This one was acrylic and prisma color marker on Bristol. Not the best thing, but I've made far worse haha http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14961648
Paints are Talens Amsterdam brand.. I brought them over from Europe. Even dealt with TSA.. apparently carrying a large container of white stuff on a plane is suspicious Pretty much your average college student brand. I used to have Talens oil pastels and watercolor too.
I've got titanium white, oxide black (we did a silhouette project), burnt umber, some shade of deep yellow (ochre maybe), ultramarine and cadmium red. So we're good there.
Seems like I've been on the right track, just missed some basics in the how-to department. I had a fantastic art teacher in high school.. I practically lived in a little corner of that classroom. I skipped art for a more 'sensible direction' in college.. becoming a teacher instead, which surprisingly still entailed a lot of art. I sucked at actually being a teacher, so dropped that plan. Two years later I entered into an arts college, got past the entry exams (which included several art projects) and then decided to move to the US instead *laugh* That's been a little over 10 years ago.. Just been doing my own thing from there, learning through practice.
I've always gotten the feeling that acrylics were looked down on, being basically the Wal-Mart of paints. I have a lot of silly hangups that I have no clue where I got them from. Like.. good artists use oil, only crappy students use acrylics. But I suppose starting with cheaper paints makes you less freaked out about screwing up.
Just gotta go and do it!
Thank you, again.
That's pretty good.
And yes, it does seem that acrylics is the redneck half brother of Oils. I have seen a lot of amazing realistic acrylic paintings, but mostly in subculture art; like Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Furry, etc. But it doesn't get as much love in the mainstream art world it seems.
I would much rather work in Oils, BUT... Oils take so dame long to dry, even with speed dryers added. Not to mention more messy. Its like the stuff gets on everything and I don't even know how.
Anyways, good luck. *Grin*
And yes, it does seem that acrylics is the redneck half brother of Oils. I have seen a lot of amazing realistic acrylic paintings, but mostly in subculture art; like Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Furry, etc. But it doesn't get as much love in the mainstream art world it seems.
I would much rather work in Oils, BUT... Oils take so dame long to dry, even with speed dryers added. Not to mention more messy. Its like the stuff gets on everything and I don't even know how.
Anyways, good luck. *Grin*
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