Oil painting is one of the most common types of fine art. To paint in oils, you need to tune in to painstaking and diligent work in advance.
Aspiring artists often don't know where to start creating an oil painting. Some recommendations should be heeded. First of all, you need to pay attention to the correct preparation of the canvas. The canvas should bounce under the brush and enable the artist to apply energetic and crisp strokes. A hemp or linen piece of fabric is used as a canvas. Cotton or rayon fabrics should not be used. For beginners, a canvas with medium thick threads is better suited; over time, it will be possible to use a more embossed texture of the canvas.
An equally important point is the manufacture or purchase of a stretcher. It is designed to keep the canvas taut during operation. The subframe should be made with an internal bevel, the angle of which ranges from 5-7 degrees. A non-beveled stretcher must not be used as this could cause paint and glue to spill onto the back of the canvas.
Before use, the canvas must be carefully glued with liquid wood glue, as this procedure will protect the canvas from the destructive effects of oil. After the canvas is glued, it should be dried and wiped with a piece of usually pumice stone. This sanding is carried out before applying the second layer of glue. After gluing, the canvas is primed, since it is impossible to paint with oil on an unprimed canvas. The primer can be emulsion, oily or semi-oily. When learning to paint, try priming the canvas with different types of soil. The main thing is that the primed canvas should be white, without spots and stripes. The basis for oil painting is a pre-drawn pencil sketch. Oil paints are applied to the canvas using brushes of various thicknesses, and be sure to use a palette. Usually an oil painting is painted for a rather long time, each layer of strokes is applied by the artist gradually and little by little. Therefore, take your time, let the artistic idea be fully embodied on the canvas.
