If anyone gets the kind of feel for how i want to process this pretty flimsy large rectangle of canvas, before i take it on to the street then Please let me know what i should do, or any suggestions would be appreciated greatly thanks. In an ideal world I would start with raw unprimed canvas about 12oz in weight.
I love the net just for the fact that I can learn from people like you. Generous and every things explained so simply. Here goes nothing….. I used to draw people ages ago and have never painted but i have a canvas in the other room and plan on painting on it?
I told you here goes nothing. So glad you are here and i found this! Go for it Dianna! The canvas in the other room deserves to make it to the easel. Good luck with your first painting! Speaking of which…. Used a chair to prop up canvas. Okay its a rather large canvas 18 x 24 inches. Uh, i have large aspirations? Went to the store twice today. Bought wrong paint. Will i be able to cover inadequate paint? Hi Dianna, if you have artist quality paint you will be able to cover over pretty much any paint underneath, with student grade paint especially in the yellows it can take a lot of layers to achieve the same level of opacity.
How did you know i was using yellow? My experience with my firsr painting has been very interesting. I washed clothes in between paints. Now i know why artists just splash water on their face in the morning…. And i feel more whole. Signing up for your drawing class next week. I have only tried watercolor portrait painting. I want my paintings to be more vibrant, as I find acrylic easier to work with.
Hi Will, Yours is a really great Site!! I am a beginner in painting. My strokes were good but it didnt create the richness of colour on the canvas and looked pretty neat on simple white paper.
In the above video, in materials tab — you have mentioned water, which I couldnt understand where to use. Did you apply water to canvas before that yellow ochre? If I want to paint on white background, Can I apply water on canvas first and then start directly painting a flower? This was the colour stains the canvas without loosing the canvas tooth.
Thanks Will :!!! I tried it and wowww the strokes were so smooth.. Really thank you very much…. My subject is one of my dogs that passed a little over a year ago.
She was a yellow labrador. A subtle ground colour from the opposite side of the colour wheel could work well, have a look at this article on choosing ground colours and studio wall colours. Hi Will, This is a great tip! What ground colour would you recommend to use? Have a look at this article which looks at some of the different ground colours you can use and why to choose them. With student quality paints it will take much more longer to cover the black, but will still work.
You can paint onto a white surface, but a coloured ground can help with so many areas of your painting success. Have a look at this article on choosing a coloured ground colour for your painting. Hi will, what if we just gesso it again instead of covering with white? Hi Saran, for this technique you cover the white with a colour, rather than working on the white canvas. Well I have some questions, I actually put some acrylic white paint on my canvas, do think it will help me paint well? My last question is if I just take out my canvas and start painting on it, will anything bad happen to my painting?
I stumbled upon your site when trying to figure out what materials I need to start out. This comments is a bit tongue in cheek and all I meant was that students often buy new canvases that are wrapped in cellophane with the best intentions to start painting but they end up just letting them get dusty on the floor as often the first brush marks are the hardest! This article on applying Gesso may help,. Hi Will, Your site is very helpful for people like us who wants to dabble in colors , and your pic has good positive vibes, which is infectitious.
A question : you mentioned in response to a question about framing.. Thanks navneet. You have a couple of options to change the finished texture with the marker:. I am thoroughly enjoying your tutorials. I am a beginner in acrylics and would like to know, if you can thin the Golden Fluids acrylics like yellow ochre or raw umber, etc.
What would the ratio be? I am a pensioner. Please continue the wonderful painting tips Thanks so much, Brigitte. I would try this technique on a 12 x 12 or 10 x 10inch canvas first amd experiment with the painting process. Thanks so much for this, you are so very helpful. Thanks again. When you have a white base to start with, let it dry, and then paint on the thin coat of the yellow ochre, the yellow ochre will appear a brighter yellow, due to the white under it.
Try a couple of small swatches, one mixed in with the gesso, one without and see which tone you prefer. I really need a grey color on a canvas. You said that grey will look black. How do I get a grey back-ground? To get a grey background just use a black and white or a raw umber and white.
Hi Will, Your site is awesome! Can you recommend the best way to attach heavy objects to canvas? I have attached many items with some strong glues but I am attaching a bike and am looking for suggestions.
I enjoy working with abstract art. Thanks :. This would help to spread the weight, and you could also glue at the same time. Will, I had never heard of this technique, but after trying it out I can really see the difference! At first I was a bit nervous since I typically paint in blues, but the overall quality of my work is so much better now.
I just wanted to say thanks for sharing this tip with the rest of us and I am so glad I found it! Everything I paint looks like I am looking down on it. How can I correct this. Just found your website and am enjoying it so much.
Just about to start putting paint on the canvas for the first time. Really nervous. Really enjoying your website Will, it is encouraging ….. But still nervous I will make a mess of it all. Hey Linda, go for it! Hi Will Kemp Interesting site. I have been trying to paint in oils. However, I would like to get away from brushes because of the cleaning agent and use palette knives. Tried it on boards, as I am not sure whether or not I cut the canvas. Not easy to use, but like to persevere.
Any hints? Did not see all your promotions. Just found this site, Also am a bit old 80 and not exactly computer literate. Thanks for hints!!
Regards Martha. See this How to paint glass demonstration for an example. Hi Will, I have drawn off and on through the years a little but I have just begun to paint. I started a couple of months ago using acrylics.
I am 65 but I have found it is never too late to start. Have paintings of both my pups already. Your online info has been very helpful to me. I have no training and it has been a great help. Thanks for making this information available online. I hope to keep learning! Is there a video that you have prepared to show how to blend colors together. At this point my lines are a little too precise.
Any info would certainly be helpful. Thanks in advance! I did Stil life, Secenery and some portraits. In between I had to stop with my Art because a ran a very successful business for 30 years!
I am in it with all my heart. If you first painted the entire picture with a dark color, would you still be able to paint over it with white? Hi Sarah, yes you can still use this technique for white objects, if you used an opaque white such as titanium white you will be able to completely cover the colours underneath. I ultimately want to paint chunky abstract pieces. Maybe even more palette knife types of pieces.
Would oils or acrylics be better for this? Also, I am confused about which preparation to do. Do I need to apply a gesso as well as a toned ground? And does that differ for acrylics and oils? Have a look at this article about the differences between acrylics and oils. I was a passionate art student too MANY years ago seeking to tap into ancient talent. That said….. Logic left brain tells me to use a pthalo green or a cerulian blue for a background. Am I out to lunch or should I have started with breakfast first?
Meaning, am I being too ambitious to start out? I keep seeing imagining the surface of transparent water, or looking up at the sun from deep in clear water, with the suns rays filtering down.
I tend to take big risks by the seat of my pants. Of course when I look at my large canvas I freeze like so many I was so confident leading up to stretching and preparing my canvas… and now a total whimp..
This article looks at art studio wall colours , but the same principles apply. I am a beginner and found your site to be helpful in providing basics to start painting on canvas. I have a pre-stretched canvas and student oil paints. Hi Bharti, you can use this technique with oil paints but it will take longer for the ground colour to dry, try using an earth pigment that dries quickly. Thanks Will. Thanks for a great site. I paint with acrylics on stretched canvas.
I recently ran out of canvas and while waiting for my order to arrive I bought a canvas locally. It was nicely made however the grain was coarser than I like. When I began painting on it I was aghast as it would not accept my paint very well at all. It almost repelled it. I laid my first application of paint and after it dried I came in with more paint to work in attempting to make it more opaque and it lifted the first application and I had bare spots on the canvas.
I played a bit more with it and became more and more frustrated until I finally decided to stop. I just could not get it to work for me. I have had this problem with several better brand canvases on the market.
Is it the gesso they use or the texture of the canvas? I tried applying my own gesso over it and it still was stubborn and would not accept my paint. Thanks for listening to my rambling! So good for shipping, not so good for painting! A good test to try it just add a few droplets of water onto the surface of the canvas and see if it soaks in or if the droplet just stays in a droplet form on top of the surface.
This can be very handy for those first layers of paint just to give a grab to the next layers ontop. Hope this helps Jeanne,. Thank you Will!! I appreciate your reply. I will test out the canvas with water and see what happens. Thanks for your suggestions. Happy New Year! It is our point of reference in our life frequently changes our viewpoint.
Sometimes good and sometimes this change is bad but it is our viewpoint that influences how we feel. Hi im trying to paint a bright and colorful huge flower i wanted a dark background to help the colors pop but im nervous to do the base dark any suggestionss. So glad I discovered this site my 6 year old and I raring to go! I am getting into portrait painting in oils. What colour etc. Hi Baiba, it all depends on the sitter, but I often go for a mix of raw umber and white so it is nice and neutral.
How does it depend on them? Skin tones? What is your favourite medium for oils? And what do you use to thicken them? Lots of questions, I know :. I was using it neat — no water. Thank you for the great tips and information, I hope to use it soon. Thanks if you can reply. So I would invest in a tube of artist quality titanium white, this will help to create opaque mixes.
Hi will, Thank you for all your helpful information on this website! Would these tips on colored grounds apply to acrylic painted on wood panel? How would you recommend prepping a wood panel? Yes, working on a wooden panel with a colour ground is exactly same as working on a canvas. I would prepare the wooden panel with a couple of coats of artist acrylic gesso and then paint the colour ground on top. For this you can paint straight onto the white gesso. Will, You have some mighty fine information on your website.
I work with acrylics. I now have the time, and do not know where to start, and found your web site! The first blank canvas is a bit scary. I want to try an acrylic painting first. For future paintings you can just dilute your paint with water to get the right consistency. Hi Will, I definitely use coloured backgrounds on my canvases before I start painting.
I also find acrylic painted back grounds better than Gesso. I love it when you pop into my inbox….. Great tips. I would like to share one I discovered and now use to great effect. It was used by the great Venetian artist Titian. For people he frequently used a green underpainting, then applied flesh tones on top. I mix burnt umber and liquibn for overall underpainting then Indian yellow and ultramarine for the underpainting in human skin. Then I mix titanium white, and burnt sienna for skin tone, adding dabs of blue or red as appropriate.
This works brilliantly and yields the complicated sub-surface scattering that makes skin tones so vibrant in good painting. This I do in oils but I imagine it will work in acrylic. Thanks for sharing Robert on your use of a Verdaccio underpainting. You might find this article of interest. I am about to do a garden, flowery painting so I thought light blue of green would work well. Hope so , thanks again, I enjoy the tips etc x. Good one Sheila, the garden scene sounds like the perfect painting to try a coloured ground on.
Hope you enjoy the results. Thank you Will for a great article and the helpful tips! I just painted the sky on the gessoed canvas and can see ugly white patches.
So I need to paint it again. Enjoy experimenting with different colours! Hi Will, thank you for a brilliant teaching site, excellent. I brought some Liquitex airbrush medium to dilute acrylic paints for putting on coloured grounds.
Is this better than using water? Are you going to make available more lessons working towards a finished painting. I have purchased a lesson from your site and found it really good. Kind regards, John. Hi John, thanks for your kind words about the site and pleased you enjoyed the lesson you purchased. Keep sharing your secrets with us. Thank you so much for these tips and instruction. Easey to follow! Look forward to more videos and tips!
Thanks again, Glenda. I painted an underground colour, then when it dried the canvas paper had rolled up so tight it was useless. I prefer to use the prepared stretch canvas, but I am finding the price of framing way too expensive, so now using smaller boards. Many thanks. With this particular technique if you apply a watery layer and are working on paper you need to keep it on the pad so the actual glueing holds it down, or treat the paper like water colour paper and tape the paper down before applying the coloured ground.
Watercolour paper can work well with this technique as well. Hi, Will, Thanks again for the ground lesson. I sure appreciate it. Have a lovely day. I have been waiting for it. I am a very new beginner and this video motivates me to get busy painting. I appreciate your style of instruction. Your voice is so calm and reassuring. You take the panic out of painting!! You rock!!!!! Hi Will Thanks for the update on colour backgrounds, still experimenting with it. Have a quick question for seascapes would it be best to use a pale green or blue as a colour ground for acrylics.
Thanks again for the inspiration you give to us all Chris. Will Thanks for your advice, your experience and skills are much appreciated as always will let you know how it turns out Chris. I am new in painting. I tried to have the yellow ocre on my canvas. Using Liquitex it is very difficult because the ocre is always visible under my colors. Hi Dominique, you need to make sure you are working with a good quality titanium white, which is an opaque white, so will help when covering over the ground colour.
I wonder if you can help. She does not varnish the finished painting. When I finish a painting it has both matte and shiny areas. I would much rather it have a look that is overall matte. I have tried so many paints, both very good quality down to craft quality to try and achieve the same look.
What do you suppose is causing this effect that seems to be out of reach for me. I figure if this artist can achieve this look, then I can too. Thanks for a great site! It seems counter-intuitive but it will give you the best results. However, I thought I might mention it just in case. No I think having a ground exposed in one way or another is more common than you might think.
I use my ground to promote lightness and chroma quite a bit. Can I leave the paint canvas blank? Core Topics General Painting. I have done this often on Ampersand boards and not seen a problem after at least 6 years. Thank U the tips are great! Mchernandez Reply. Found answer to primer question further in your website.. Do you have any dolphin traceables with step by step instructions in acrylic paint? Hi Bridget! I do not but a dolphin painting is on my list of ones to make so hopefully soon!!
Thank you so very much. I am looking forward to seeing that in the future. Would love to know peoples views… Thanks TOM. Debra Debra Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. June 6, at am Godzoned Default. Still looks good from the day I painted the painting. Hi Tom, I prefer the canvas to be painted totally otherwise the painting feels unfinished to me. June 6, at pm Sketchee Default. Brian Portfolio , Podcast , Facebook , Twitter.
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