Free Landscape Painting Lessons and Tips for Oil and Acrylic
These pages are set up as a guide to step
you through some of the techniques that I use and helpful hints
for making landscape paintings
in Oil Paint and Acrylic paint.
Foggy Morning
One of the best things that I have
discovered in oil paint lately is the water mixable products
produced
by different manufacturers. I started with a set of Holbein
Water Soluble Oil Colors called DUO Aqua Oil. I love
the consistancy and that the drying time is only about
3 days or so for the thickness that I usually lay it
on.
This painting was done on a panel made
of birch veneer plywood. I primed the wood with a grey
tinted paint and let it dry. I then sketched out the basic
outlines of my most prominent features. I try to quickly
block in the major color areas, this following set of photos
show the painting in progress. |
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| This early photo shows the development
of my painting. You can still see the bare panel (the grey
roof areas). I plan out the composition based on these
dominant basic shapes, the fence, the hedge, the roofs,
all are geometric and easy to lay in color using a palette
knife. |
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A bit closer look
you can see my under drawing, mostly just pencil line
drawn directly onto
the grey primed panel. My palette knife painting technique
can be described like patching a nail hole in drywall
with spackle. I just dab it into place using the flat
edge of the knife to control the edges of a color space.
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| This is the final painting, good to
compare how much color and definition followed the first
few photos above. The details of the front door and awning,
the trim around the roofs, and toned down grass colors. |
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