Straight Painte

Canvas to web. A different creative medium, keeping up with the times. I need more space to paint, so the web will have to do for the time being.

Although sketching is something I like to do, the wonder of working straight in oils progressed naturally through sheer determination.  It is however preferable to first plan a painting according to traditional methods, for a successful, smooth operation, and a more direct route to a balanced perspective,  To sketch guide lines of positioning and proportion in pencil, crayon or pastel etc, before embarking on any serious artwork obviously is logical. 

Painting without sketching is far more time consuming in the long run, being a trial and error method. But it is the route I took.

Until well versed with interpreting large-as-life visual reality to copied or imagined images,  pencil point is the long time proven method of choice with which to begin painting. However, any method of turning flat surfaces into two or three dimensional representations of reality is acceptable - it is the end result  matters.

The painting in oils challenge depends on the intensity with which one is driven and which results one hopes to achieve. Hand painting and drawing remains interesting, throughout the centuries as one of life's enjoyable pastimes.

It can be taken to any level of perfection as with any skill. 

I have often felt that it is sculpting in paint when colours are minimilised. The form emerges and one is able to bring lines into perspective and re-work the image until the portrayal is acceptably clear and formed, then refining. From school exercises to hobby painting or adopting a professional approach, it is similar; one can work from plan or intuition.  On Oil Paper, oil paint and natural Turpentine dries after three days so this means that one can review one's applications whilst working on a series.  

A way for humans to be: A source of help and strength to each other.

2007. Oil on Cardboard 45X50cm. Unframed.

To begin without models, one can simply work on proportions: the head is one eighth of the figure. Limbs and posture can be practiced in order to paint activity

of people in paintings which add interest in landscapes, town scenes and the like.

This theme is therapeutic more than detailed, the purpose being to reflect human beings as the up right standing species with discerning intellect, compassion and tolerance.