Topic awaiting preservation: First time in oils!

This is my second time using oils; but for what it's worth, it could be considered my first. The first piece I did in oils was very graphic, without much blending or rendering.

I need to know exactly how to proceed here. I think I want a painterly, yet smooth, look. So I'm going to be mixing my oils with lots of galkyd oil for a silker medium (I don't have access to Neo Megilp, which from reading about it, is closer to what I'd want. However the closest art supply stores charge an enormous amount for it. I have galkyd handy).

So any links to, or suggestions on how to proceed, would be greatly appreciated. The person is loosely based on a photograph I took of my sister for my Photo 1 class.

18" x 24"


Color Test

DANKE!

(Edited by cfb on 10-04-2005 01:07)

hhmm.. The last time I painted in oils was many years ago. My art teacher taught us to layer the oils on and build up tones and values.. it's almost like low opacity painting in a digital way. But, like I said, it's been many years and I was never that proficient in oils. I'm sure there are a variety of methods for traditional oil painting.

You might have more luck over here: Wet Canvas Oil Painting

I like your pic so far and I hope you keep posting your updates here. I'm interested in seeing how you get on

--Amerasu--

Three pieces of advice I was given when starting to paint with oils were:

1. "Find the black in your picture".
2. "Paint the canvas with the darkest colors and gradually layer up to the lightest."
3. "Paint the canvas with the lightest colors and gradually layer up to the darker colors"

I found all these to be absolutely useless at the time.

The one piece of advice I found useful was to draw the image on the canvas (as you have done) with charcoal. The charcoal will be absorbed by the oil and not affect the painting. If you use pencil it will continually leach through the pigment and darken your painting.

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-- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful.

Thank you Amerasu and Hyperbole. I think it's more a guess and check process. I've seen those descriptions of technique and perhaps I'll try them once I get more comfortable with oils. thank you both! =)

Well, I pretty much started blind to oil painting in general. The above picture morphed genders three different times. I arrived at this:



The second was intentional and more planned, and I tried rendering.



(Edited by cfb on 10-05-2005 08:13)

(Edited by cfb on 10-05-2005 08:16)

That second painting looks great! Well done

CG Talk is hosting online Figure Drawing/Painting & Anatomy workshops with Rebecca Kimmel. It would be good for you. I'm there and learning a lot. You could do the figures in oil.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=282400&page=1&pp=15

--Amerasu--