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Back to the time of the Romans, oil painting was recognized and grew into popularity in the near 15th century. Mixed with a specific medium, oil paints are almost used for a lifetime purpose. However, oil painting is considered one of the toughest types of paintings to begin with.
There are many factors why beginners find oil painting to be one of the toughest compared to the rest. The availability of the choice of colours and the scent to begin with is just the beginning to frighten the painters. To add on, the care of a canvas begins with an amount of investment and the attention given as the storage of a wet canvas to dry is one of the turn offs for most beginners. This is why painters who are at the beginning level of painting begin with water colour. Water colours are one of the painting mediums that are said to be one of the toughest and complicated mediums to ever place your fingers on first.
It might sound tough but sometimes the toughest things to do give out many benefits compared to what’s not. For beginners, oil painting gives you a slight help when you make a small mistake on the painting you are working on by just wiping off the section and hence fixing it right. Another advantage is the colours and the paint used. The paint will actually have its moisture for quite a period of time that gives blending a simple yet a relaxed moment to begin with. The development of the painting too actually is a time saver as the colours cover the canvas in a breeze.
Oil painting does not only own the cons but there are the pros too behind it as it was told. To give some motivation towards beginners to actually give it a go in oil painting, I will summarize the process of actually using oil painting as one of the mediums in producing a well done picture.
The first step would be the choices of colours. The good news is you do not need twenty four or thirty six colours to begin with. All you need is just a few colours to actually begin with. A few to choose from would be the Red Medium Cadmium, Titanium White Ultramarines, Lamp Black and Yellow Medium Burnt Umber Burnt Sienna. Depending on what you want to focus your paintings on, Lamp Black would be well used in the mixes of paint to begin with.
Alkyd Oil paints is well known to be a quick and preferable used kind of paint to actually encourage oil painting storage to be a breeze. The reason behind this is the time spent for drying is very short which is about approximately less than twenty four hours. This type of paint is encouraged as this is one of the hygienic advantages as not much dust will be gathered as the wet painting takes the time to dry in a short period of time.
At the end of every painting session, there is always the time where you need to do the closing process which is the clean up session. To wash your brushes, you will require a type of solvent and trust me; low scented solvents are well to do. A suggestion made was the Bob Ross Low odour thinner. To thin the paint mix for the usage of painting, half of Linseed oil and the other half of thinner would be gladly good enough for it is nearby scentless smells. To save cost, oil painting brushes are actually reasonable and much more cheaper compared to the usual watercolour brushes. In another way, it saves money by beginning with oil.
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