Learn how to oil paints Landscapes like the Professionals, Step by Step

If you’re interested in learning how to paint landscapes using oil paints here are some steps that will help you get started.

Supplies you will need: a soft pencil or piece of charcoal, this is best to start your drawing, and works especially well on canvas.

Brushes: brushes made out of hog hairs work the best for oil paintings. You have a selection of hog hair brushes to choose from, they come in round, flat, brights, or filbert. You can also use a Sable, squirrel hair, or fitch, brush to apply detail and highlights to your painting.

Palette: provides a place and mix your paints on. Palettes are made out of wood, acrylic, cardboard, or other hard materials that they paint will not absorb into. Use a palette knife mixing your paint or to apply a large amount of paint onto a canvas.

Solvent: used to thin the paint, turpentine or linseed oil works great for this.

Paint: the better the quality the better the results.

Surface: also known as the support, canvas is what you use to paint on, stretched canvas, oil painting paper, or oil painting boards are the most popular. You can use hardboard, but you will need to prime it at least three times before you can use it with an acrylic primer.

Easel: a place to put your painting; the adjustable easels work best.

Rags: keep a good supply of rags handy to use to clean your brushes and palette.

Steps for Painting
Find a painting that you can copy for practice.

Begin by drawing the basic shapes of the painting, using soft pencil or charcoal to start your painting.

Apply a thin layer of paint, using paint mixed with turpentine and a little linseed oil; this will be your first layer. Simple is best, keep the colors as basic as possible at this point, try to use the colors you see but in darker tones. After you have applied the main block of colors, you can start to fill in the darkest areas of the painting.

Proceed by painting in the darker details if there are any.

Let the painting dry.

If you are painting sky, start at the horizon and work in the first details of the sky with the color you will be using.

Next begin painting in the points that are furthest on the horizon and work forward to the middle of the painting. Once you have finished that you can start painting any details across the center of the picture.

After that you can add some detail and dark areas to the middle ground of the picture.

Next, look for the darkest areas and paint them in working forward towards the front of the picture.

After this you can work on the middle section.

When you’re working on the foreground, put in some details, make sure you do not lose the darkest areas completely which give the painting depth.

Complete the work in the foreground of the painting.

Finis by completing the final details and the highlights of you landscape oil painting.

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