Chapter 28 The Basic Techniques of Oils CABINS & BUILDING TECHNIQUES The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-1 Cabins & Building Techniques
The Basic Techniques of Oils TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 28: Cabins & Building Techniques Art Supplies For Painting Cabins & Buildings... 28-3 Background Trees Forrest Background Trees.. 28-6 Highlighting Background Trees With A 2 Brush... 28-11 Highlighting Background Trees With A Filbert Brush.. 28-12 Evergreen Trees Background Evergreen Trees 28-15 Background Evergreen Trees With A 2 Brush. 28-16 Evergreen Trees With A Fan Brush.. 28-17 Highlighting Evergreen Trees....... 28-21 Evergreen Trees With A 1 Brush..... 28-23 Evergreen Trees With A Filbert Brush.. 28-24 Smiling Evergreen Trees With A Fan Brush.. 28-26 Leafy Trees In General Mature Trees..... 28-29 Dead Trees...... 28-32 Knotholes....... 28-37 Branches.. 28-38 Little Trees. 28- Budding Trees. 28- Specific Species of Trees Palm Trees..... 28-44 Birch Trees... 28-47 Weeping Willow.. 28-49 Cactus. 28- Giants.. 28- The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-2 Cabins & Building Techniques
Art Supplies: Painting Trees Any painting tool can be used to paint water. By concentrating on the type of water stroke desired, this will define the brush you use. I use any of the brushes you see on the left. For my traditional oils I use either a few brushes or a palette knife to achieve the effect I desire for mountains. My chief work horse is the #10 palette knife. I use the 2 1/2 or 1 brush for initial shaping of the mountain or creating mist when finished. I ll also use the fan or hake brush. I ll sometime decide to use the #4 or #6 flat bristle brush to shape and highlight mountains depending on effect. 1. Large brushes for blending and laying in the basic for all sorts of ocean and fresh water scenes, 2. I use the fan brush, flats and filberts for detail. 3. I use the large brushes, mops and hake brushes for blending spray, whether from waterfalls or crashing waves. 4. I use the liner brush for foam patterns. 5. I use the palette knife to mix paint and lay in waterlines.. Water has no color. It simply reflects color from its neighboring elements.. Therefore there s no formulae for mixing water color. All of the paints in your paint box can be used. This also means as you paint water you need to understand a few things about your painting to choose the correct water color. Sky Color. This forms the base water color in most instances. Weather: Is a warm still day with no movement, or is there plenty of wind and the water choppy? This affects reflections of surrounding elements and how much sky color is reflected from the water. Light: Strong, dim, direction, etc. We can easily add a shimmer of light across the surface of the water, however does it make sense? The level of light let s us make many decisions regarding the color of paint used or added to the water body. Time of day: morning, mid-day, evening, night. Spend some time before beginning to compose your painting answering these questions. As a beginning student I want you to focus initially on techniques. The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-3 Cabins & Building Techniques
Perspective The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-4 Cabins & Building Techniques
Basic Theory Its impossible to conceive of painting many landscapes without learning to master lakes, streams and waterfalls. I d like to start out our study of lakes with the most basic lake. Then we ll cover all of the components including sunlight shimmering across the lake, reflections, waterlines, small falls, bigger falls, cascading falls, etc.. Water is important in our world. Equally important in the landscapes we paint of our world. Water can be any color. It simply reflects the colors of all of the elements around it. And when it does a really good job of reflecting the colors we have a mirrored image of the world around us, excepts its upside down. For this section, we re going to be reflecting the sky color. This is my painting of the Denver-Cheyenne Trail. Notice how light the water is as it reflects the blue sky color. This dramatically adds to the composition of the entire painting. We can alter the color of the water to state the time of year. However, Time of Year is only one aspect of considering what color to paint our bodies of water. Thankfully we have mother nature to guide us. Simply look outside and see for yourself the color of the sky and water. Learn to paint what you see and paint what you see. Take lots of photos and always refer to them as you paint. In one of my earliest paintings, The Mallard, I painted a blue sky that turned yellow closer to the horizon. In fact even though this is a hazy morning, one cannot tell where the sky ends and the horizon begins. When I first took this photo, the sunlight was blinding me so I chose to reflect a less powerful light, but one that indicate brightness and haze. Did you note that the back trees had reflections, but the left foreground shoreline is devoid of reflections? Even the mallard has a reflection, but I didn t do the reflection on the left shoreline. I ve kept this painting for almost 20 years as a sober reminder to always check my work. The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-5 Cabins & Building Techniques
Four Point Perspective The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-6 Cabins & Building Techniques
Using A Brush To Build Perspective The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-7 Cabins & Building Techniques
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Using A Wipe-Out Tool For Perspective The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-10 Cabins & Building Techniques
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The Basic Cabin The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-12 Cabins & Building Techniques
Using A Palette Knife To Make A Cabin The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-13 Cabins & Building Techniques
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Basic Cabin In The Woods The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-19 Cabins & Building Techniques
Basic Cabin Using Brushes The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-20 Cabins & Building Techniques
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Using A Knife To Make Buildings The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-25 Cabins & Building Techniques
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Buildings. The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-27 Cabins & Building Techniques
The Covered Bridge The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-28 Cabins & Building Techniques
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Log Cabin The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-32 Cabins & Building Techniques
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The Barn The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-38 Cabins & Building Techniques
The Porch The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-39 Cabins & Building Techniques
Stone Cottage With A Thatched Roof The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-40 Cabins & Building Techniques
Buildings In The Distance The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-41 Cabins & Building Techniques
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The Lighthouse The Basic Techniques of Oils, Chapter 28 28-46 Cabins & Building Techniques
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