Anonymous bunniee 6w

ITS NOT DONE YET

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Anonymous bunniee 6w

ALSO IT SUCKS

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Anonymous #2 6w

omg

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Anonymous #2 6w

ok so I’ve barely dabbled in acrylics and they always dried way too fast so now I’m trying oils. do you have any resources? it just seems like there’s so much to learn

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Anonymous cookie 6w

what are you looking to paint? people, landscapes, animals, food? depending on your subject matter (as well as the “style” you’re going for), there are lots of youtube tutorials on how to complete a master copy/study!

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Anonymous cookie 6w

i love oil painting though! what i like to do before starting any painting is to tone my surface with either a colored ground (which you can make by adding acrylic paint to white acrylic gesso and applying that to my canvas or panel (make sure u sand after tho)) or with a wash of oil paint that i’ve “leaned” with turpentine/turpenoid. sometimes i’ll skip toning/a wash by going straight in with a loose underpainting, just to relax myself and get something on the canvas ^_^

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Anonymous #2 6w

I’m more interested in plants and I really like the impressionist style

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Anonymous cookie 6w

ahhh okay sure, so something like van gogh or cezanne? a hallmark of impressionism is the exaggeration (or amplification) of color. i would recommend looking through different impressionist painters and see if they have any still lifes. then when you find one you like, zoom in and crop tightly to just one area of the painting you’d like to focus on. tight enough so there’s only one subject, but not so much so that all the details are abstracted

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Anonymous #2 6w

those two are actual prints I have in my home and I want more things like them

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Anonymous cookie 6w

also make sure the crop ratio fits the size of your surface (ie, a 3x4 crop fitting a 6x8in canvas)! then draw a grid over your reference photo and a grid on your canvas or panel. this is going to help deconstruct what you’re looking at by breaking it down into sections, which can be broken down into tinier sections. it’s a bit like a puzzle that gets put together when you step away. you can either follow a tutorial (ie, say you pick van gogh—there are lots of “how to paint like van gogh” vids)

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Anonymous cookie 6w

or just sit and study your reference image. what do you notice? what colors are most saturated, and where? what colors do you see in the shadows, or in the highlights? what do the brushstrokes look like? are they careful & calculated, or furious & confident? is the paint applied thinly and in layers, or thick and impasto? it can be frustrating at first, but the more you do it, the easier it gets

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Anonymous cookie 6w

this second one in particular you could do several studies of! just to get the hang of it. flowers like peonies or roses will start by laying down a mid tone (that medium shade of blue) and then carving out the shadows. the white comes last and is likely the thickest layer to amp up contrast. david jansen on youtube might have a tutorial for flower painting that could be helpful !

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Anonymous #2 6w

🫡 thanks !!

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