Oil Painting Techniques

Art is usually divided in the main categories "abstract" or "realistic". But the difference between abstract and realistic painting techniques shouldn't be absolute. As long as abstract is just abstract and realistic just realistic, there's no movement or development. Painting becomes interesting right where abstract and realistic painting meet. Realistic paintings are immersed with abstract aspects like color, composition, forms and texture - and abstract paintings that are really only abstract don't mean anything to a human anymore. Good abstract art always has some (new and creative) referral to our memory of sensory perception.

Each visual element, color, shape, the proportion of what. - Red is a kind of fruit color, a passion, blue sky - color, is a distance - color. A red sky creates drama. Blue food and painting, creating a distant from instead. When you put this knowledge into abstract paintings, you can use your job to transmit information.

This is the main difficulties, it is hard to detect the natural state. This is what we are. Is there anything that you want to experience is like a fish, trying to become, aware of the water. But the painting is the best way to learn, such feeling. You just need to understand your canvas, you have your own body as reference material. Fine.

Even when we make pictures, we don't describe reality or nature "as is really. We select subjects', lighting, a composition. The same thing happens in our realistic painting. The sky is blue, the tree is green, in our minds, but close observation shows that can have all sorts of color, so that you can play emotion by selecting a specific topic, pictures, or one particular time of the items. Which is more realistic painting - you build your visual elements.When we do abstract paintings, always have element, refers to the reality, or for all of our experience. "Up", "down" general terms, but they all have specific meaning - "down", you want to find a bottom, solid, stand up, "" you expect of air, and some light. It will be a natural conditions. It can be any other way, of course, but you have very different mood (from the perspective of cliff hanging in an empty down and stared at him very stressfull below).

Painting into interesting places reality and abstract oil painting is connected. Then all the things from the realistic painting, molding, we think that they exist way reality: you see and experience. In the import and practical factors make you new meaning to the abstract paintings, if you paint. Your theme may material (a portrait, landscape, etc.) or material (emotional, concepts, or feel). But when you make to yourself the meaning of this demand, that is: referral to the reality, it is equal, immeasurable colour, stroke and geometric shapes into meaningful color, shape, and gestures you may even give an appearance, also have an appearance.