Deciding to practice the art of oil painting was a great, but now you're faced with what you need to buy to get started. oil painting materials can be very expensive and most of the materials to choose from. This list of materials will take a long time in your first year of painting and is on a budget.
The choice of a good stand can be difficult. But the most important feature is that it is sturdy! When I first started oil painting, I had no money forbuy the kind of stand I needed. So I went home to fix local store and bought an 8 by 4 sheets of ¾ inch plywood for about $ 15.00. I put a wall in my basement and put a little 'support screws at the top of the board and the ceiling joist and stand while! The reason it works so well is that it's great, so you can put on any size canvas and does not get much stronger than that!
You've never even had to adjust anything, because you put the canvas on which you wantit. This brings me to the next note, however, important. I got my gun and staple the canvas to the easel flat stretch them after the picture is done. This is another reason why the sheet of plywood has worked so well. I used it for years and years and many paintings on it, so I got my $ 15.00 out of it.
But I also have a portable stand that I have spent about $ 180.00 up. I use that for when I paint etc. upstairs or outside, things are coming white bristle brushes (get a variety ofthem) a few sable brushes (to get a variety). I would suggest getting REAL hair brushes of animal origin, not synthetic. The real animal hair brushes are the best, they can better manage the pigments, and is more natural. I had a lot of synthetic brushes very soon and I got rid of them all, garbage in my opinion. One of the most valuable things that I was close to my brush cotton Qtips REAL. They are way better than some of my brushes well. You can create sometimes very thin and soften those edges. Get aBox 500. Once you start using it, you can go through them fast! But get some wire cutters and cut them in half. And 'boring, but believe me, if you do not, you will lose more of them and start getting paint all over the place. You'll be glad you did this, and do not forget a kind of tin can, or put them in
This can be a privilege, but I would suggest getting disposable palette. These tablets of wax coated paper. When you use an up and rip your ready to go. Ialso suggested that two of them. One is to put down the colors and the other is used for mixing only. Trust me, your going to save a lot of paint and disposable palette in this way.
There are a variety of oils can be mixed with pigments and you have to experiment, but start with the cold-pressed flax oil. In short, it's made from trees in a different way and is a great oil for general use. I use it all the time and that's all I use. You'll need a spatula to mix the oils andresins in your pigments. An alkyd resin will be needed in order to accelerate the drying times of some pigments. There are a variety of brands, but just ask for one that is for general use until you know which ones you want.
Paint thinner or mineral spirits are essential, but be sure to get a guy who is not too strong or smelly, it's not good to breathe. You'll also need a washing brush to put the paint thinner and wash brushes. Get some rags and canteenscleanups.
There is a wide selection of pigments to choose from, but the first consideration is to make sure you buy pure pigments and colors. brick-red pigment is not a reality. Here is a list of the pigments you need to start and take you well in your first year of painting. Titanium white, umber raw, burnt umber, raw sienna, burnt sienna, ivory black, alizarin crimson, cadmium red, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange green cadmium, chromium oxide green, blue Cobalt, Viridian,dioxazine violet, ultramarine blue French Paynes gray, dark gray, ocher, green sap, pliers to disentangle the paint caps locked, and toilet paper to clean the palette knife, cups and those little 'artist with the protections in order to place your linseed oil and alkyd resin in
If you use the right prepared canvas, you will also have blue tape and a square in order to extract the size of the painting you are doing and mark it with tape. Get a color wheel. This is an enormous help toyou begin to know what will certainly mix etc. It 'important to have a good artist soap to wash their hands because you never want to obtain any materials artist close to the mouth and eyes, etc..
You'll also need some simple bar of Ivory soap to wash brushes. An important element is a metal bin that can be made airtight. This is where you put all your waste oil painting! Polymerization resins, oils, pigments and solvents are highly flammable and has given all the right conditions, they maySpontaneous combustion! But in a metal garbage can that is air tight, you have nothing to worry about.
Finally the canvas. You can get canvas panels, and so on stretched canvas, canvas panels are good for practice, but I also suggest preparing your canvas primed and buy it. I have another article out about this and I am a "how to" video about it on Ustream. But you can also buy pre-stretched canvas. One can only begin to paint on them, but they are sooverpriced.
This list should get oil paint quickly and carry you well in your first year of painting.
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