I would like to try that, the only problem is oil paint takes forever to dry, sometimes I have to wait for weeks till its completely dry and I don't have that much time (academy entry exam is almost around the corner) >.<Why not try layers of *almost* the right colour? If one is too dark and the other too light and you apply them very lightly it should work.
I don't like when colors dry too quick because I'm rather slow when painting and adding shadows and stuff. Well, I guess I can try adding layers like you said but while it dries in the meantime I can work on another oneI'm way too impatient so I tend to use acrylic paint or very thick layers of watercolour.I guess in that case you'll just have to keep trying?
I don't like when colors dry too quick because I'm rather slow when painting and adding shadows and stuff. Well, I guess I can try adding layers like you said but while it dries in the meantime I can work on another one
It's not that hard I guess, but then again I learned in school about and paint with it until this day onward. Sometimes it can be hard and frustrating to get a specific color but since oil dries slowly you can lay it down and try again later (that's what I like the most about it). And I guess it's worth mentioning that depending on the oil you use, the oil color can dry a little faster or slower. I had notes somewhere about that but it seems I put them in the attic with the rest of the school stuff ;-;
I'd love to learn oil painting though, but I have only a small kit of oil paint and I don't want to waste it.
I'm mostly self-taught. In school they told me; here's supplies, this is the assignment: Good luck and good riddance. Besides, we did a lot installations (different techniques in one artwork, for example sculpting and painting and music). The focus was much more on the idea and much less on technique, which was greta but it also means i have a lot to learn.
So that's on my to-do list... along with an anatomical correct skeleton, a wolf and an octopus mermaid.
My professor was almost the same. I say almost because he would help us do things but wouldn't explain why are we doing it so I do know the whole process of preparing the canvas but if someone asked me why am I doing something, I have no idea whyI'm mostly self-taught. In school they told me; here's supplies, this is the assignment: Good luck and good riddance. Besides, we did a lot installations (different techniques in one artwork, for example sculpting and painting and music). The focus was much more on the idea and much less on technique, which was greta but it also means i have a lot to learn.
Somehow it doesn't work for me: I post something I really worked hard on, working through the mistakes or problems my picky eyes usually see, and it falls flat. Nobody says a thing when I post it, and I got earnest followings. Now that is a motivation-killer if you ask me. Ever felt that or know how to work through it?That happened to me in the latest pic i draw, I'm finishing the final outlines, and then I noticed, the arm look a bit off. But I say to my self "scratch it, it's not that important" and ignore it, I slowly progressing until its turn into
The arm still look off for me, but the pic look great, if I abandoned this at that time, I'd miss my own little masterpiece.
When you doesn't know what to do, you didn't have to do anything. It'll come to you sooner or later.