You will need
- Linen/ cotton canvas, cardboard, wood or other canvas with acrylic primer; brushes made of natural hog bristle for the main work and sable brushes for drawing details; sponge; rags, palette for mixing paints; solvent/linseed oil for diluting the paint and washing brushes; varnish for a protective coating for the finished work
Instruction
1
Label on canvas for future drawing using simple shapes and contour lines. Use this diluted paint, charcoal, pencil.
2
Spherical and toroidal objects draw sickle and twisted brush strokes, confusedly — triangular strokes, cylindrical, parallel strokes. Flat surface print with parallel brush strokes.
3
For smooth color transitions, use the flat brush. In this case, the paint mix on the palette and apply to the proposed location of gradation. Move the brush forward-back-forward in a cross manner. In the final step of creating the color transition use parallel strokes. Work with a clean brush from a darker color to a medium tone, and then clean again with a brush from a lighter color to the middle color.
4
Poziruuschie transparent layers of oil paint, the shading pattern on the dried layer. To get them, use to dilute the paint a special liquid, and the mixture was applied with kolinsky brush in a horizontal position. If you want to change the color of the pattern in the glaze make the direction of the strokes in much the same way that there are on the primary layer.
Translucent glazing layers also apply kolinsky brush in a horizontal position. The paint is dilute in the ratio damanskogo 1/3 varnish, 1/3 turps and 1/3 linseed oil.
Translucent glazing layers also apply kolinsky brush in a horizontal position. The paint is dilute in the ratio damanskogo 1/3 varnish, 1/3 turps and 1/3 linseed oil.
Note
Pencil for outline drawing use with care, as its sharp tip can damage the primer of the canvas.
Useful advice
Mix paint on the palette carefully and gradually. For more bright colors, use white color or glaze.