Painting Skills
Absolute Beginners
Learn fundamental painting skills in 3 mediums:
 | Watercolour |
| Acrylic |
| Oil |
Create, explore & paint with pure prismatic colours & monochromatic earth tones on paper & canvas.
All materials supplied.
Oil Painting - Beginner & Intermediate Levels
| Materials & Supplies |
| Fundamental & Advanced Skills |
Painting Techniques & Tips for Working: Inside (Studio) & Outside (Plein Air)
Oil Painting Materials List
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Supports – Canvas or Masonite with 2 – 3 coats of Gesso (Canvas boards are not recommended they tend to warp and are not archival quality. Good to practice on.) |
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Brushes – Firm Bristle Brushes sizes 4, 6 & 8 brights & filberts |
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Easel – Table top (indoor use) or French Easel (Indoor & outdoor use) depending on preference |
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Solvent – Odourless Mineral Spirits (not as vaporous as turpentine) |
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Rags – for cleaning brushes, wiping out stained canvas. |
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Oil Paints |
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Basic Palette: Titanium white Alizarin Crimson Ultramarine Blue Cadium Yellow |
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Double Palette: Warm Primary colours and Cold primary Colours with white. |
PAINTING CONCEPTS
3 stages of a painting
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Concept – the idea of what you will paint. |
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Vision – to envision the painting in your mind, before you start. |
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Creation – the process of making art. 4 keys to a successful painting:
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COMPOSITION – Use of the golden section vs. central composition or symmetrical objects. Use of dynamic diagonals to lead the viewers eye around the painting |
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COLOUR – Warm & cool colour relationships, harmonious use of colour, (triads of the colour wheel) |
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VALUE - Use of light and dark on a scale of 1 –5. |
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POINT OF INTEREST - has the highest contrast, the brightest & darkest area to the draw attention of the viewer. e.g. In a Landscape painting the background should be softer while the foreground is sharper, stronger & clearer. brushwork Gives a painting texture, life and sparkle… If over-blended, colour will lose its vibrancy. Leave pieces of colour on the canvas & let the viewer’s eye put it all together, as the impressionists did.
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