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Drawing and Composition: I begin oil paintings by drawing and composing the subject. It’s best to draw the subject with pencil or raw umber oil paint while composing the surrounding space on canvas. Developing Planes: It's important to define the planes, which connect the different forms that comprise the subject of your painting. Find the large planes first. Then work your way down to the smaller plains. Once you find the top planes, front planes, side planes, and bottom planes, you'll start to understand the dimensionality of the subject. |
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Oil Painting Techniques II: Creating a value study and color study. Value Study:
Create a simple study, a rough painting that is used to work out the main values, which are shades of light and dark. The study should use neutral grays, which are cool and warm gray
paints that are mixed together to create a neutral color temperature. You can work
out the values for any painting with a simple value study that ’s no larger than a postage stamp. Once you work out the values, you'll be ready to
develop the colors. |
