How to draw a good oil painting with a scraper

(1) color knife. Used for adjustment and oiling on palette or plane. Generally, the knife has a long body, a round head, a straight handle and moderate hardness and elasticity. The knife surface is smooth and smooth, which is beneficial to wiping. The design of round-headed blade is an important feature. When mixing pigments, the pigment can be quickly wiped off without damaging the bottom plate when scraping.

(2) draw a knife. The blade of the painting knife is thin, delicate and extremely elastic. There is a curved metal rod connection between the knife surface and the handle. This special design prevents the finger from touching the color of the picture when painting, and at the same time makes the painting knife more flexible and free in control. Blades have various shapes such as circular, square, triangular,

Inclined shape, etc. The length and size are also different. Painting with a painting knife can achieve the effect that is difficult to achieve with a brush. The brush is often used perpendicular to the canvas or at an angle, while the blade is almost parallel to the canvas when using the painting knife. Painting knife is a common tool for modern painters.

(3) scraper. It is mainly used to clean the waste pigments on the palette. The blade is hard and shaped like a shovel used by workers. However, in practical application, large-size color palette knives and painting knives are often used to scrape the color. But you can't scrape the color on the palette because the blade is thin and easy to fold. There is a plastic scraper with a straight handle.

It can ensure that the palette, especially the paper palette, will not be damaged when it is used.

(4) auxiliary tools.

Scalpel or paper knife: used to repair the protruding lines on canvas and remove small particles or stains on the screen.

Large scraper: it is mainly used to make large canvas substrate and is used for large-scale painting in modern painting techniques. (1) is an old-fashioned big painting knife used by European painters in 16 and 17 centuries. ② It is a big scraper used by Yves, a contemporary French surrealist painter.

How to draw with a painting knife?

Painting with a knife began with Titian, a painter in Venice. In his later years, Titian developed a brand-new oil painting technique, using both a brush and a palette knife and fingers to smear colors, forming his unique painting style.

Painting knives can create effects that brushes can't. Because of the different sizes and shapes of painting knives, all kinds of texture effects can be made with painting knives, from sharp tips to round heads and flat heads. Artists can use painting knives leisurely according to their own interests.

The knife painting method adopts the direct color transport method, which can squeeze out the color from the tin tube and paint directly on the canvas. The white canvas is like a big palette. Adjust the color on the canvas with a painting knife to fill the picture. You can scrape off the dissatisfied parts and repaint them at any time. Of course, you can also use the color palette.

Adjust and draw the canvas upward. Painting with a painting knife can make the color of the picture have a special sense of lightness and improve the purity of the color as a whole.

Although meticulous depiction is not the advantage of painting a knife, the painter can still show many details through the use and control of techniques. It is a work that completes the whole painting process with a painting knife. Draw the outline of pineapple with a narrow knife tip first, and then use a wide one.

Paint the flat-headed painting knife with a general color. Then scrape off the excess color with a big scraper, resulting in rough texture. Then use the multi-function palette knife to mix the heavy white and the application background. In the in-depth characterization stage, various painting knives are used, and various knife methods such as lapping, pressing, dragging, rubbing and scraping are adopted.

Increase the texture of pineapple and enrich the color of the picture.

The beauty of knife painting comes from the randomness of color application. Although there is no rigorous and soft surface, it can bring unexpected interest, and various contingencies produce pleasant and surprising picture effects.

The technique of reverse painting is a great stunt of knife painting. First paint the color on the painting, and then scrape the shape of the object with the pen tip and side. This technique makes full use of the slow-drying characteristics of oil painting. This step can be used as the first color layer of a new oil painting or as the pure gray stage of transparent painting.

The scraping technique of oil painting knife can be used in both wet and fresh color layers. The background color revealed by the knife scraping method can make people have many associations. When Whistler painted a portrait, every time he painted a model, he scraped a part of the painting to create a beautiful and ever-changing delicate color layer.

In this way, when the work is completed, the color layer of the picture is very thin, but the color is extremely rich and natural.

Manet, Sargent, Bonaire and many other painters often use scraping technique to paint, which produces accidental effects. Scraping technique can make the picture fresh, lively and full of life breath, and produce wonderful and attractive color effects.