A beginner's guide to Painting
There is no age for having enoyment with colors and shapes.You can always paint whenever you like to,it's just a matter of taking keen interest in few simple basic steps.This blog is all about introduction to the material required,painting set up and a general idea to warm up exercises.
Firstly it's important for you to decide which medium do you want to begin with.Popular mediums are:
1.Oil paint
2.Acrylics
3.Pastels
4.Watercolors
Oil paint requires oil paint brushes set,a palette,oil colors,turpentine oil,linseed oil,a rug/tisuue roll
a primed canvas and an aisle.
Painting with Acrylics require same set up except for oils they are done with water .
For Pastels a drawing board,pastel sheet,pastel color set,drawing pins , an aisle is used
Watercolor painting is done with a watercolor paper, brush set,a palette ,containers,tissue rolls,masking tape,drawing board or watercolor sketchbook
All of these images are taken from professional artists website.For beignners your set up may be scattered and messy,don't worry every artist develops his/her own environment in quite some time.Here is mine!
Now let's begin the process! Even if you have chosen any medium for painting the very first and essential part is to chose what to paint? I refer to my students to chose their own favorite object or view or any figure or portait.It seems easy to work with different mediums when one is clear of his/her subject of painting.This mostly happens in one day or a week workshop.It is the most suitable way to understand the way to paint.
After you are done with the selection of image,it is important to sketch it first on sketchbook as many times as it becomes identical.
Next thing is to decide what dimensions your painting would have.It is very easy always look for the size of your image and find out the difference between its width and height .For instance if your image is 32 in length inches and 45 inches wide then the difference is almost 13 inches.Now if you want a painting of width 24 so you would choose probably 36 as its height.Similarly for a small painting it might be 10 x 22 inches.
Now make a complete drawing of your selected image on canvas with pencil.Then gradually begin painting by blocking inn tones and keep on adding details as many as you like.
Warm up exercises for painting is th real joy of the process.To enjoy this section you must understand the color wheel.In the RYB (or subtractive) color model, the primary colors are red, yellow and blue.
The three secondary colors (green, orange and purple) are created by mixing two primary colors.
Another six tertiary colors are created by mixing primary and secondary colors.
Mixing colors is a therapy itself,it is kool if you redraw this color wheel and mix primary colors and create secondary colors and then mixing again primary and secondary you would get the tertiary colors.The color circle can be divided into warm and cool colors.
Warm colors are vivid and energetic, and tend to advance in space.
Cool colors give an impression of calm, and create a soothing impression.
White, black and gray are considered to be neutral.
Tints and Shades are often used incorrectly, although they describe fairly simple color concepts. If a color is made lighter by adding white, the result is called a tint.
If black is added, the darker version is called a shade. And if gray is added, the result is a different tone.
Here is an old image when i tried color wheel painting in oils as a beginner.
You may try it in your favorite medium,thats pastels
Go ahead . relax your mind and keep painting!
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