Do you want a tip on how things with oils? Because i still remember a lot, heh.

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Okay, something I learned in school that helps A LOT, is don't draw your painting in pencil or charcoal. Like that works for preemptive tonal studies and thumbnails, but you don't want charcoal/graphite in your paint. Go at your canvas with an oil wash of burnt umber (or whatever, I used green for that painting I showed you, but in class we used burnt umber) and do your tonal drawing using just that color. Don't leave any of the canvas white.

Have LOTS OF PAPER TOWEL AVAILABLE. They're GREAT for pulling out highlights at this stage. Those shitty ones in public restrooms are perfect. So uh. Steal them? ^^;

You're looking for an end result like this: http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/.....ickout_opt.jpg

I'm not sure what you already know, but in case you don't know how to make oil medium, mix... I think it was 1 part linseed oil, 2 parts turp. Yeah, it was: http://emptyeasel.com/2007/05/25/ho.....nd-turpentine/

Dip a big brush in it, dip that brush in your umber, and go to town on your canvas. If the paint is too thick/dark on your canvas just add more medium to the brush.

And then paint as you would normally with a smaller brush for drawing (a quarter inch sized tip is good) and use your paper towel to pull out highlights. Only use the burnt umber when adding any tone/value, no white, no black.

Also, go big. If you're gonna practice, make it a big piece; it allows more room for error and such. It also uses more paint, but eh.

And then when you're done with that, let it sit somewhere for a day to dry somewhat and then paint over it in color as you would normally. The point of this is to add more depth or something like that since color is such a... I guess, dimensional? Layered? Thing.

I AM NOT 100% SURE how well this works out on paper (I didn't want to bother with needing to seal it and such so I never painted with oil on paper) but I would imagine the same rules apply. Just be careful about not saturating it when it comes to the oil wash stage, I guess.

THERE ARE MANY OTHER TECHNIQUES TO PAINTING IN OIL, but this is the one I know.

Ahhhhhhhhh THANK YOU!!!

;; I am going to try this today!!

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