Oil painting materials and some basic techniques

Oil painting materials can be divided into base oil painting material,oil paint,media oil painting material. base oil painting material is bearing paint pigment layer of backing material and coating. Oil paint is the direct expression of painting color and texture effects when drawing the main material. Media oil painting material is used to adjust the properties of pigments and substrate materials together,such as all kinds of Extenders, binders and Polish.

Masonry
Masonry method is to use a knife instead of a brush, like brick layers with mud plaster knife ring built to canvas a color directly to leave a scar. Masonry method can have different thickness of the layer change, knife knife for size and shape, and will also have a wealth of different contrast. Draw knife without taking a different color too much blending, let it naturally mixed on the screen can be subtle colour relationships. When the color change too much,it also can use the methods of masonry to build it.If masonry method used properly, it will have a very strong sense of shape
Scraper
It is the basic purpose of the painting knife scraper, scrape method is generally used the blade scrapes, the screen draws to be desired on the part, also use the knife to scrape the unnecessary detail or weaken the relationship of too strong.ISo picture relationship looks tensions relax,it is very suitable for the city oil paintings. Long-term job at the end of the day are often needed to finish this painting part of the color, use a knife to scrape the time for drying, next day art. Color can also be used after draw knife or razor shave rough flat. Also in color on the layer of wet shave with a knife, revealing background to show a variety of textures.
Coat
If the points drawing and sketching is a means to form a point and line of oil painting, coating is the main point of the oil painting. There are flat-coated, thick and thin film coating, etc,it also have a method called impressionistic color powder coating. Flat paint is the primary method of painting large areas of color, uniform coating is also a common technique of china oil painting reproductions. Thick coating is a painting from other art ~ the kinds of main features of, you can have some thickness and visible strokes of paint and texture formation. Very thick paint scraping to draw a knife or paint squeezed directly into the canvas, may be called James. Thin thin after lighten,then it is diluted with oil colors to paint pictures, can produce a transparent or semi-transparent effect. Powder coating is flexible, lively. Paint with rubbing sweep coating method, also called the Corona.
Pendulum
Paint directly on the canvas with a pen does not make any more changes on that swing, swing is one of the basic techniques of oil painting. Methods commonly used in oil painting at the beginning and end of the pendulum, with more color and certainly accurate strokes to find a relationship between color and form, often critical Department only a few can make the screen change, of course, write should do before knowing what to do to work.
Wipe
It is lying across the brush, brush the belly screen drum cleaning, usually, wiping large areas with less color, it can form does not clear the stroke, is also a commonly used method of bed layer. In the background or rolling on the texture of dry wiping technique can be used to draw a similar effect of the traditional Chinese painting in a style of calligraphy characterized by hollow strokes, make the texture more visible at the bottom.