Acrylic & Oil Painting Tips : How to Prepare a Canvas For Oil Painting

[Yusrararts]

great vid..

[Chenet7]

ltsASuicideMachine you need to get the work in a dust/air seal frame

[ItsASuicideMachine]

hey i have a slightly unrelated question. I did an oil painting onto paper, expecting it to be just a half-assed portrait, but it ended up being the best thing i've ever done. So anyway, i didn't bother preparing the paper, and i just wondered if there's

any way i could stop the painting deteriorating over time? If I coat it in varnish, will that help?

[amarie1007]

@ItsASuicideMachine from what i know varnish can definitely help to keep your paintings longer

[MalkiaMawnstuh]

ROFL THATS MY TEACHER FROM LAST YEAR :O

[Nakedwaterbottle]

o:<

Thats my teacher!!!

D:

[xwaytohellx]

i have a question

when i paint do i have to put liquid medium on my brush and then the colours and then start painting or just the dry brush with nothing on it and put the colours and start painting ?

for eg if i want to paint the sky, blue do i have to water on my brush or liquid medium or just start painting?

[AerdnaZaze]

well... you can do both , If you put liquid on your brush the painting will slide more easily but be carefull don't use a lot of liquid only the tip of the brush and then the painting, the other way it's to directly put painting on your brush and start painting

I hope I could help you

[DeviantMatch]

It depends on the desired effect.

Painting dry creates a thicker paint, or a toned down paint (like when there's almost no paint on your brush anymore)

If you water your brush, you create a smoother texture, but also it becomes slightly transparent. You can make it completly transparent by mixing your paints with a transparent gel, this is good for painting like Hercules (I think 15th century painter)

So you can choose

[jag824xx]

nevrmind its goen

[jag824xx]

this vid gave me bonr

[wangdadi8039]

can you tell what kind material put on?

[AerdnaZaze]

the Gesso you can boght it on your art suplies or you can make it with white glue, or natural animal glue and white zinc powder mix them very well and that's it

[Volv093t]

cool vid, do most canvas's that are bought from art stores come ready for paint?

[AerdnaZaze]

yeah all the canvas from the stores are ready to paint don't worry

[ugartist]

No not "all" the canvas are have gesso some do some don't