Basic techniques of oil painting

The basic techniques of oil painting are as follows:

1. Transparent drawing.

Transparent painting is basically the basic technique of European oil painting before19th century. This technology has many steps. First of all, you should make a sketch relationship or texture effect that conforms to your ideal with the bottom material on the substrates of various colors, then cover it with transparent pigment, and finally finish it.

It is simple to understand, that is, one layer of color is covered on another layer of color alone, and the color below is like a piece of colored glass; Instead of mixing two colors to directly produce a third color, the third color is the result of visual harmony, not direct physical harmony.

2. Thick painting.

Thick painting is more willful than transparent painting (after all, it is partial painting), and thicker colors can be superimposed on the wet or painted pigments. The purpose of thick coating is to highlight the key points and shape the texture. The stacked three-dimensional entities bring a heavy appearance to the oil painting.

This technique is a bit rough. It is more suitable for rough and strong drawing boards, because it is too thin or weak to support its thick paint layer.

3. Draw directly.

Direct painting is the most commonly used technique in oil painting. Also known as direct coloring, it refers to making a rough outline of an object on the canvas, and laying down the color at a time by virtue of the color feeling of the object or the idea of the color of the picture. If there are inaccuracies or flaws after painting, you can scrape them off with a painting knife and continue to adjust the color.

Similar to the thick painting method, the pigments used in the painting process are thicker, the color saturation is higher, and the brush strokes are clear, which makes it easy for people to have a * * * sound with the picture content.