Learn to Paint
Learning to paint can be a highly personal journey. I've heard lots of people tell me they wish they knew how to paint. I think everyone can paint, it's a matter of allowing yourself the freedom to actually do it.
Even artists can feel that fear of making a mark on a clean surface. This is the fear that the first mark will ruin the possiblies the blank surface offers. Its not a reasonable fear because no one mark, line or brushstroke can irretrivably ruin a painting. But it is a real fear nonetheless.
Horse Painting Turtorial by Kim Wyatt
A work in progress from start to finish!
This is a tutorial starting from a pencil drawing on canvas, all the way through to a completed painting. Not all of my paintings begin as drawings but this drawing actually became about three or four differant finished paintings.
This drawing was made while looking at a horse breeder magazine, I didn't copy any photos (which would be copyright infringement) but I did refine some rough sketches into this composition.
The pencil outline on canvas. I call this stage "mapping out" ...
The first two colors
A deep red undercoat for the background.
random brushstrokes in three differant reds for texture in the background
Gold outlines around the horses.
Mica power added to the tan colors as a base for next step.
The coat of mica is sealed to allow more vigorous treatment of these areas in th...
A mixture of tan and metallic gold paint is applied over the mica areas and wipe...
Detail of writing incorporated into the brushstrokes under the black horses head...
Detail of the tan wiped away over the metallic layer.
Detail of the black horse and his mane.
A work in process
The pencil drawing
This is a painting started from a pencil drawing from my sketchbook. Not all of my paintings begin as drawings but this drawing actually became about three or four differant finished paintings.The original drawing was made while looking at a horse breeder magazine, I didn't copy any photos (which would be copyright infringement) but I did refine some rough sketches into this composition.
Remember, while there are many right and wrong ways to make art, when it comes right down to it, most rules are flexible. If you want to try something, try it.
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Basic painting rules
Some things just don't work
Oil Paint is oily, therefore waterbased paints like watercolor & acrylic paints will peel & flake off if applied over oil paint.
Oh, and oil paint on paper tends to age badly, eventually the oil will bleed out of the pigment into the paper & you'll get an oily stain on your picture.
Buy the best you can afford
There is nothing worse than trying to learn to paint with cheap paints. Buy decent supplies while they are on sale, liquid watercolor paint, acid free 140lb wieght watercolor paper sold pads or watercolor blocks. Try to avoid the cheap canvas boards which have cardboard in them that swells and bends as the painting ages.
If painting in watercolors get a couple of decent brushes. They make all the differance.
As for acrylic paints, you can use cheep brushes, plastic knives anything you can think of to get the paint on the canvas or paper.
