Loose Impressionist Painting: Tree in the sun Oil or Acrylic

Impressionist painting - Oil or Acrylic

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Loose Impressionist Painting: Tree in the sun Oil or Acrylic

What You Will Learn!

We will go over the basics of how to prepare for a painting and work our way from blocking in the basic shapes up to really small details;
I will teach you about the three value study and the underpainting, two of the most important steps in the painting process.
You’ll learn to use various techniques to boost your control and overall painting skills and see firsthand the importance of edges in your art.
Impressionism is concentrated on painting light and we’re going to learn to use expressive brushstrokes and smooth gradients to get the maximum impact.

Description

This is a paint along course where I also cover tips and tricks on how to create a loose and colorful painting in a modern impressionist style. I chose to paint a simple tree surrounded by just a few elements: the sky, a plain grass field and some elements in the background. This way we can focus on detailing and texturing the painting without working towards tying together too many objects, each with their own values, hue and color saturation.

Painting this tree gives us a lot of freedom to experiment with different textures by using brushes and a palette knife interchangeably.

Trees and other organic elements like bushes help you develop your own style by exploring how the appearance of branches and leaves is given using the palette knife or different size brushes. We are looking to give our art a painterly feel with clear, bold brushstrokes.

The whole course is in real time so you will be able to see step-by-step how the painting is created, not skipping a single streak of color.

Please make sure you:

have at least a palette knife and a 3 quarter inch brush for the process
have some solvent handy. You can buy turpentine or any other solvent from your local art supplier
download the attached reference photo so you have something to compare (print it if possible)

TIP: If you don't have acrylic burnt sienna for the underpainting, you can dilute your oil burnt sienna with a lot of solvent and it will dry a lot faster, even less than an hour if it is thin enough. For this painting it's best to get the coat as opaque as possible but it is a common practice to have the underpainting a lot thinner so don't worry if you can still quite see the canvas.

Hope you enjoy the course and don’t forget to post a photo of your work :). I am really excited to see what your finished painting will look like.

Also don’t forget to follow me for more courses in the future.

Cheers!

Who Should Attend!

All skill levels including beginners. I will explain everything I do and, if you keep in mind the beginner tips and techniques mentioned in the course, you will be able to follow along and get a great result in the end;
Oil painters. The painting is done in oils and many of the techniques, while can be done in other mediums too, are primarily oil painting techniques;
Acrylic Painters. I have painted in acrylics for years and I can safely say that you can get a similar result using this medium. It would be more difficult to blend new layers into the underlayers but you can still get similar effects by reapplying both layer colors in small areas and blending them on the spot. All the colors mentioned in the course are available in acrylics as well;
Gouache, watercolor and Tempera Painters are welcome to try, but these mediums are so different, it would be quite difficult to follow along with the course. Still, I would love to see the result and I’m really curious as to how the painting will look in different types of mediums;

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