[Help] I received a painting easel for Christmas, as I asked for, and I'm about to set out on ... Updates to this post /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:12:29 +0100 Reply from ANGELG19 /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3568733 hello

]]> ANGELG19 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:37:01 +0100 Reply from ANGELG19 /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3568725 i need something to draw or a idaea of some ideas

]]> ANGELG19 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:35:40 +0100 Reply from quizzie /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3327533 when i draw, i make sure i put numbers or initials for the color im going to put in there so i dont screw up.

p.s. like the name.

]]> quizzie Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:54:03 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324579 YW

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:14:41 +0100 Reply from PersonalPandaParty /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324578 Um, thank you.

]]> PersonalPandaParty Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:14:12 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324576 Wow! I got the sun correct but that’s all. But I can see now what you mean when I looked at it again. Nice work!

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:11:00 +0100 Reply from PersonalPandaParty /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324574 Sometimes, I don’t even know what I mean by it. I don’t know what I’m doing! That’s what I love about abstract. My mind has no idea what’s going on. It’s…direct communication between my hand and my soul. I don’t think about it until I’m done.
But, the entwinement in the corner is couple in love. The swirl in the middle in the sun. The two large creatures are just that…large creatures. I modeled them after giraffes. And the thing looking from the top is a snake…
Hmm…I think it’s supposed to be the Garden of Eden.

]]> PersonalPandaParty Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:07:35 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324570 Neat! :) I don’t understand abstracts much. Is it ok to ask what you meant to depict by your sketch?

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:57:51 +0100 Reply from PersonalPandaParty /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324568 Here’s the sketch: http://www.uploadhouse.com/fileupload…

Yes, it does have writing on the back…

]]> PersonalPandaParty Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:55:57 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324561 Good then :). Good luck!

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:44:39 +0100 Reply from PersonalPandaParty /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324556 Um, no. I still want to paint, but I can’t, I guess…Well, not know. You just made it harder than I thought. That isn’t a bad thing, though. I like a challenge.
Oaky, then. The oily stuff is labeled “Oil colour Painting Medium”
Oh, I just found an instructions booklet. I shall read. But I like to figure it myself, without rules, but I guess I have to, unless I want to waste this stuff.

]]> PersonalPandaParty Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:41:27 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324552 Sheesh! I hope I didn’t throw cold water on your enthusiasm :(

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:37:29 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324548 Don’t get discouraged. Just have all the basic necessities at hand. Then you won’t run into trouble.

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:33:18 +0100 Reply from PersonalPandaParty /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324545 Okay, then. I guess I won’t be starting to paint tonight, then.

]]> PersonalPandaParty Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:31:51 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324543 KK. Um.. the oily stuff in the bottle probably is linseed oil. It is a oil paint thinner alright. But you have to have turpentine or a substitute to clean your brushes. Turp can be used as a thinner too. I mix both the turp and the linseed oil so that the painting would dry fast. If you use linseed oil along then it would take a longer time for the painting to get dried.
Don’t worry, trial and error is the way to learn. You’ll know empirically then what needs to be done.
Why not invest in a good book on ‘oil paint for beginners’? There are good instruction books available in all major book stores. Anyway, that’s how I learned to paint in oil, they helped a lot.

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:30:11 +0100 Reply from PersonalPandaParty /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324538 Umm…if that’s what this oily stuff in the bottle is, then yes.
(I guess I have no idea what I’m doing…)
I’m scanning the thing right now.

]]> PersonalPandaParty Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:23:08 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324534 Btw, you got an oil paint thinner with you right?

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:21:20 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324531 yep, I want to see :)

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:20:22 +0100 Reply from PersonalPandaParty /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324527 I didn’t understand half the things you said, but okay. By the way, I’ll scan the sketch right now and post it, if you want to see.

]]> PersonalPandaParty Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:19:35 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324519 YW. Yeah, a pencil sketch is good too. But when you plan to do a big painting on a canvas, charcoal is much more convenient. Oh, btw, when using thinners like turpentine or others, do it in a well ventilated area. And some oil colors like titanium white is toxic so mind that you don’t get in in your mouth by accident, hehe. Wear some old clothes so you don’t get paint on your good clothes b/c they are hard to remove. Always keep the used brushes in a container with Turp so that the paints won’t get dried on the brushes.

]]> ~Soulsearcher~ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:10:32 +0100 Reply from PersonalPandaParty /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324511 Well, thanks. Yes, they are oil paints. I sketched out this with pencil. I can use charcoal to sketch later, especially because this printer paper has something on the over side…
Well, thanks again for the advice.

]]> PersonalPandaParty Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:03:45 +0100 Reply from ~Soulsearcher~ /post/120667-i-received-a-painting-easel-for-chr#reply-3324508 I assume you are going to use oil paints? Or is it acrylics? either way it’s always good to plan the painting first before move on to the canvas. You can use charcoal to sketch the drawing on the canvas. Then build the painting Up gradually (if it’s oil). First use thinned out paints as washes to form the fundamental painting and gradually use thicker and thicker layers to make it come out as you want to. If It’s oil then let the first layers get dry first and and you can put other layers on top of them.
If it’s acrylics then you have to be more quick b/c they dry fast. And putting layers on top of prior layers of acrylic paints would alter the color of the second layer.

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