Steps to Remember when Making Original Oil Paintings
Oil painting is a beautiful means of capturing, documenting and expressing the varied creative sides of the painter. Original oil paintings can be naturalistic, representative or abstract in nature. Making an oil painting seems an easy task but in reality it is not so. Apart from drawing and composing a theme, there are a lot more aspects that a painter needs to think about.
You can easily buy original oil paintings from any reputed traditional abstract art gallery or online fine art gallery. But the pleasure to create your own oil painting is something totally different as it would give you immense pleasure to see your expressions on the canvas.
For a novice painter, here are some tips to make your oil painting experience a pleasant one:
- Put the different colours on the palette in a systematic way so that you don’t face problems while accessing them.
- With each layer of paint increase the proportion of oil.
- Let the lower layer dry up before applying fresh coat of paint as it might create cracks between paint.
- Avoid using the ivory black colour unless you want it particularly as this shade takes a longer time to dry.
- Use pigments containing lead, cobalt, and manganese as they help in drying.
- Don’t let your oil painting dry in the dark as it makes the colours look pale.
- You can use alcohol for varnishing a layer of oil paint. Alcohol is a powerful solvent and is good for oil paintings