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European artists began to use oil paint in the 15th century, and since then it has been used to create the most famous paintings of all time. But even in our high-tech days, oil still retains its charm and mystery, and artists continue to invent new techniques, tearing patterns to shreds and pushing the boundaries of modern art.
website chose works that delighted us and made us remember that beauty can be born in any era.
The owner of an incredible skill, the Polish artist Justyna Kopania, in her expressive sweeping works, was able to preserve the transparency of the fog, the lightness of the sail, the smooth rocking of the ship on the waves.
Her paintings amaze with their depth, volume, saturation, and the texture is such that it is impossible to take your eyes off them.
Primitive artist from Minsk Valentin Gubarev not chasing fame and just doing what he loves. His work is insanely popular abroad, but almost unfamiliar to his compatriots. In the mid-90s, the French fell in love with his everyday sketches and signed a contract with the artist for 16 years. The paintings, which, it would seem, should be understandable only to us, the bearers of the "modest charm of undeveloped socialism", were liked by the European public, and exhibitions began in Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain and other countries.
In the modern era of high-resolution images and the rise of hyperrealism, Philip Barlow's work immediately attracts attention. However, a certain effort is required from the viewer in order to force himself to look at blurry silhouettes and bright spots on the author's canvases. Probably, this is how people suffering from myopia see the world without glasses and contact lenses.
Oil on wood panels by American artist Jeremy Mann paints dynamic portraits of a modern metropolis. “Abstract shapes, lines, contrast of light and dark spots - everything creates a picture that evokes the feeling that a person experiences in the crowd and bustle of the city, but can also express the calmness that one finds when contemplating quiet beauty,” says the artist.
In the paintings of the British artist Neil Simone (Neil Simone) everything is not what it seems at first glance. “For me, the world around me is a series of fragile and ever-changing shapes, shadows and boundaries,” says Simon. And in his paintings everything is really illusory and interconnected. Borders are washed away, and stories flow into each other.
Italian-born contemporary American artist Joseph Lorusso transfers to canvas scenes that he saw in the everyday life of ordinary people. Hugs and kisses, passionate impulses, moments of tenderness and desire fill his emotional pictures.
Most people choose needlework or other artistic options as a hobby. Moreover, because of the same mass-produced goods, the demand for things made by oneself is increasing. Photos or computer images are printed multiple times. You can do a unique thing by learning how to paint oil paintings. If you watch the video lessons of famous artists, then even a beginner can understand this painting technique.
Even if you try to repeat your plot perfectly twice, you still cannot make an exact copy. This creates the uniqueness of works of art. How to start and learn how to create paintings?
Materials that will be required for work:
- host.
- Different colors.
- Brushes.
- Solvent and a small container for it.
- Special palette for mixing.
Masters also use palette knife- special metal elastic shovels with wooden handles, with which paint is applied to the base. It is important for a beginner to master brushes.
In addition, the masters paint pictures on easel or a high-quality sketchbook, if they go to work in nature, to depict oil paintings from life.
Landscapes for beginners is a difficult subject. It is better to create pictures with the help of imagination or using photographs. This will make it easier to depict the landscape.
According to professionals, easier to work on an easel, as it is easier to step back and look at the result of the work. At first, you can try to practice on the surface of the table, but it is better to take some board and put it on your chair at a certain slope. You will see an overview of your work and you will be able to evaluate its quality well, notice your shortcomings in time.
Remember that paint wears out quickly Therefore, you need to purchase them individually and in large quantities. The form of release is of different sizes. White paint is the fastest to leave, but black paint is consumed in very small quantities. First you need to decide on plot, and then buy paints of the appropriate colors and shades.
In order to draw an autumn bouquet, you will need one set, and for a summer bouquet, a completely different one. In order not to waste your budget on unnecessary colors, it is better to take only the necessary ones in approximately the right amount. All colors and shades can be obtained with only three main colors(yellow, red, blue), as well as white and black.
Gallery: oil painting pictures (25 photos)
Creating and selecting a base step by step
If you want to make it easier for yourself to draw, buy in specialized stores ready-made foundations for work on which you can immediately apply paint. They cost a decent amount of money, but they are just right for a beginner, as they greatly simplify the work.
Another great option is application of fiberboard. In the household of every man there are scraps of this material, which remains after the repair. It is easy to find it by asking friends, relatives or a loved one. Someone definitely used it and keeps the remains of this material in the garage.
The shape of the sides of fiberboard is different, one looks very smooth, and the other is rather rough, remotely similar to a woven structure. Both forms can be used, but more parts and layers of primer should be applied to a rough surface, otherwise the color may become dull, as the paint will sink a little into the structure of such a product.
If for the first time you decide to try to paint a landscape oil painting, you can take a ready-made fiberboard base with primer already applied. The sheet should be taken small, no more than a landscape one.
If you want to make a base from WPV with your own hands, an easy and inexpensive way is using plain gelatin, you can add PVA glue to it so that the color turns white. It is necessary to apply this primer in several layers with the preliminary drying of the past. Three times will be enough. You should feel that the surface has changed. After preparing the base, you can proceed to create a picture.
Master class oil painting
After creating the basis and preparing the materials, we proceed to work in stages:
- Make a line drawing on the canvas with a simple pencil or paint.
- Take care of the distribution of shadows and highlights (where there will be bright and dark areas).
- Create the background and all large objects.
- Engage in drawing small shapes and details.
Sometimes back off from the picture to evaluate the results of their activities. In the process of drawing, mix different shades of colors on the palette. The last action is the design of the picture for the frame.
Master class in oil painting for beginners
In this master class we will draw the sea!
Drawing Description step by step:
First of all, you need to prepare a picture with which you are going to paint the sea. Put the canvas on the easel. Create the first strokes on the canvas, making the main background. Wait a little until it dries completely. If you follow the tips of the master class, then you will be able to paint a picture with oil paints with the sea. After finishing drawing, you need to decide on the name, most importantly, do not forget to leave your initials at work. Authorship is very important because it makes your work stand out.
Conclusion
If you understand drawing, you can understand that it is not difficult to depict a landscape or paint. You can also draw with ready-made canvases, because this is the easiest thing to do.
We paint oil paintings: photo
First of all, it differs in the colors that modern artists use. They hardly use crystals, which have been widely used by all artists since the Renaissance. But, nevertheless, nature in the works of modern landscape painters is still beautiful. The modern landscape differs from its predecessors in a more vivid expression of feelings, moods and thoughts. Most often written Modern artists, like their predecessors, use this material so that the result pleases the viewer longer.
Artist Yuri Obukhovsky
The romantic landscape "Costa Bravo" ("marina") is filled with the artist. In fact, this is the "wild" coast of Spain with a length of a little less than two hundred km.
The painting depicts a narrow bay with a rocky shore. The blue of the calm Mediterranean Sea competes with the blue of the sky, which seems to have faded from the bright sun. Snow-white clouds, emphasizing its blueness, echo the white triangular sailboats that have gone far into the sea, with white foam crashing against the rocks of the waves. The blue of the sea is not uniform. Close to the viewer, it slightly brightens, away - it becomes saturated blue, as if filled with the power of an unpredictable water element. The picture is so full of romanticism that it does not leave the viewer indifferent. The rocks that frame the bay are visible in the distance in light lilac shades, and close up they sparkle with gold. They were gilded in different shades by the bright sun, which is not visible to the viewer, but its hot rays are felt in everything. In our gray climate it is nice to see rich blues and golds, and it is joyful to have such a picture at home that at any time of the year will speak of summer sparkling with all colors. This picture is good not only at home, but also in the office, when you can take your eyes off the computer and look at the living calming sea.
The artist is not confined to one marine genre. He is interested in everything: the landscapes of Moscow, and Karelia, and the Crimea. The wonderful corners of Moscow rise before the viewer in the landscapes “Spring on the Patriarchs” and “The Yard on Tverskoy Boulevard”, which open up the familiar to us anew. Invariable admiration is caused by these oil paintings. Modern artists see and reflect in their paintings a diverse delightful world.
Artist Kandybin
The painter gave his love to the landscape of Russia. His canvases depict narrow, transparent and clean rivers with banks overgrown with green grass. Bridges and boats show that people live somewhere nearby in such beauty. Powerful trees, descending from the slopes, approach the banks, reflected in the still surface of the water. On one of the canvases there is a five-domed church with a white bell tower, and white water lilies bloom along the shore.
Oil paintings by contemporary artists (landscapes) are realistic. All canvases by Kandybin are full of peace. And only stitches-paths tell us that people live and work here who take care of the world that surrounds them. In the landscape with the beginning of autumn, when the grass along the river is still green, like the whole forest is still green, a bright golden-orange maple stands out, which sensed the approaching autumn days. A few burgundy-red bushes along the river are also signs of autumn. The artist's gaze lovingly stops at the winter landscape. Clear silhouettes of old branched trees are especially good against the background of snow. And the white-trunked birch trees are silvering next to the green pines and fir-trees.
Landscapes by Alexei Savchenko
An experienced landscape painter, who turned forty in 2015, does not get tired of admiring the change of seasons. He is a member of the Creative Union of Russian Artists. Abandoned half-forgotten villages come to life on his canvases. Almost the same landscape, painted both in summer and in autumn, carries a different, but joyfully thoughtful mood due to color. The country road is dry in summer, and in autumn its ruts turn dark purple, sagging from the frequent rains.
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Alexander Afonin
Born in Kursk and starting to draw at the age of 12, he was educated at the art school in Zheleznogorsk, which he considers one of the best in Russia. All landscapes the artist goes to draw on nature, without copying photographs. And the result is living Russian nature in front of us in all its discreet charm and poetry. (paintings by contemporary artists in particular) is full of high aesthetics. Afonin's works are very romantic.
In one of the paintings, a small green island with a tiny church in the center opens up before the viewer. And around in a haze the lake and the huge endless sky merge. The painter found a secluded and most beautiful corner and showed it to those who, for some reason, cannot get out of the house. The artist's gaze reveals to us a vast unknown world.
Victor Bykov discovers the beauty of the forest
The painter became interested in forest thickets and forest edges, in which a city dweller does not visit as often as he would like. The sun's rays, refracting and playing with colors, penetrate his canvases. They change the usual gloomy lighting of the forest. It just becomes magical.
And the winter forest, bowed under the weight of the snowfall that has just passed, seems impregnable, but it still calls to get through the deep snowdrifts and shake off the snow from the branches that have fallen, showering all their companions with it. The morning in the picture is sunny and paints it in pinkish-lilac tones.
Sergey Peredereev
He is a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation. His works are full of constant admiration for our material world. He does not treat nature like Bazarov, who said that nature is not a temple, but a workshop. No, this is a temple that must be appreciated and loved, because the resources of nature are not endless. To need oil paintings. Modern artists admire not only fields, forests, copses. Sometimes a small village is very interesting, perhaps a former town, standing on a hill rising up. The picture shows its outskirts, and then a forest begins. (paintings) by contemporary artists takes the viewer away from the urban world, from huge apartment buildings, from the flow of cars, to quiet corners where everything is full of harmony.
Many people paint in oils. Modern artists often fill them with silence and tranquility. People in small villages live slowly, trying only to plant, water, weed, harvest, harvest, prepare for the winter. And when they go out onto the porch in the morning, they fully inhale the fresh air filled with the aromas of herbs and flowers.
Looking at modern landscape painters, you see that in which the exact transmission of nature is important, which has its origins in the 19th century, the work of contemporary artists continues. If earlier artists set themselves not only genre tasks, but it was important for many to show the oppression of the people, now undoubted skill is poured into oil paintings on canvas by contemporary artists, come to life on canvases and do not leave the viewer indifferent.
Many people have a rather contradictory attitude towards contemporary art, so everything that was created after the 19th century causes a certain skepticism - the majority still gravitate towards more classical forms than Malevich’s Black Square and complex installations. However, modern oil painting is not always paint spilled on canvas; it can inherit the traditions of academic painting, and at the same time retain the atmosphere of the 21st century.
Modern oil painting
Among the huge number of contemporary artists there are many really talented authors who paint in oils, whose painting delights even harsh critics. We have selected ten noteworthy names whose work should not leave viewers indifferent.
Valentin Gubarev
Valentin Gubarev is an artist with a strong personality and an unusual vision of the world.
Paradoxically, he chooses the themes, plots and images of his works in a rather banal way, from everyday life. They do not look like masterpieces of Russian painting, but captivate with their charming simplicity.
The strength of these paintings lies in the fact that after viewing all the subjects painted in oil on them, they look like some old acquaintances, guys from our yard. Such oil painting can be viewed indefinitely, penetrating into this strange, but very curious world.
The characters of Gubarev's paintings are familiar to everyone: they are either us or our neighbors, but, in general, this is our past and present society, seen through the lens of healthy humor, some irony, nostalgia for fun times.
Jeremy Mann
In his creative work, Mann seeks to depict his city, San Francisco, and fill these paintings with drama, mood and character.
It brings a unique atmosphere and dynamics to the urban surroundings. Many of the artist's works are inspired by rain and wet pavement reflecting street lights and neon signs.
Mann paints his works in oil on wood panels using a variety of techniques: staining surfaces with stains, wiping off paint with solvent, applying sweeping strokes of ink to the canvas, and making sure to supply his painting with harmonious and colorful hues.
Gerhard Gluck
Cartoonist Gerhard Gluck is perhaps the most flamboyant and skilled satirist of the middle class in Germany. The artist's style has already become recognizable - Gluck's caricatures and other works are known throughout Germany and beyond. His characters are stocky Europeans, with faces without a pronounced chin. All of them are depicted in the stories of their daily lives.
"This was the first time the Brochards had ordered something over the Internet"
"Daily Mona Lisa"
Before becoming an artist, Gluck worked as a school art teacher. One day, one of his friends suggested that he send sketches to a couple of newspapers. As a result, Gluck received a positive response from one of them, quit his job at school and continued his activities exclusively as a cartoonist.
"André would have loved to feed the fish, but he was afraid of the consequences"
All of Gluck's caricatures, although they reveal various aspects of human nature, and sometimes not the most positive, but this funny oil painting cannot be called evil.
Laurent Parcelier
The obvious talent of Laurent Parcelier emerged during his studies at the School of Art, after the publication of several of his art albums under the title "Strange World".
His popularity began to spread even further when he won a street painting competition. Fans fell in love with him for his unique style and laid-back oil painting style.
Laurent's work combines a complex color composition and a huge amount of light. Parcelier prefers to draw his paintings in a realistic manner, because, according to him, everyone can guess what kind of place is depicted in the picture.
Kevin Sloan
Kevin Sloan is an American artist whose oil painting can be called modern realism. Kevin himself explains it as a reality with a catch.
The artist's paintings will really take you to some other, magical world. The author loves to use symbolism, poetic metaphors and allegories in his paintings, trying to convey the wonders of the natural world and its abundance.
The artist has been painting in oils since high school, and still, 37 years later, it remains his main passion.
Most of all, Kevin loves to draw animals. As he says, they give him more freedom of choice in who and how to draw than in the case of people, and provide an opportunity to better focus on the story that he puts in the basis of the picture.
Richard Estes
Initially, Estes was interested in traditional academic painting, but then he began to paint in the genre of photorealism, because he always wanted to learn how to display reality on canvas as fully as possible. However, even in the artist's paintings, reality seems to be idealized, along with perfect forms, clear lines and a well-balanced composition.
Estes' favorite subject was urban landscapes, when you see them, you begin to doubt whether you really have a painting in front of you, and not a photograph.
Modern paintings in this genre have become very popular among connoisseurs of 21st century painting.
Oil Painting: Landscapes and Still Lifes
In modern painting, in addition to portraits, genres such as landscape and still life are especially popular. We invite you to pay attention to the following names of contemporary artists performing oil paintings in these genres.
Dmitry Annenkov
Dmitry Annenkov, it seems, is able to draw any object in such a way that the viewer himself will look at it with different eyes. Not a single detail is hidden from the keen eye of this Russian artist.
He often draws the most simple and banal, everyday and antique objects, endowing each of them with his own unique character - as if a soul appears in them. At the same time, they look so alive and realistic that you want to reach out your hands and get them out of the picture. Dmitry is a real master of such genre of painting as still life.
Now Dmitry is collaborating with various galleries around the world, including those from countries such as the USA, Norway and France.
Justina Digging
A Polish artist who paints oil paintings that are stunning in their volume and depth, and all thanks to a special original technique.
Despite the sweeping and expressiveness of the works, seascapes do not lose the transparency of the water and the lightness of the sails, and on the contrary, they attract with their voluminous texture, which you want to feel by touch.
Justina says that the main task of her paintings is to convey atmosphere, not realism, and asks to perceive her oil paintings as fragments of memories.
Despite the fact that a variety of landscapes predominate among her works, she considers people to be her main inspiration.
Xing Yao Tsen
This young Taiwanese artist started painting when he was ten years old. Now he is twenty-nine, and he has his own style, Xing-Yao Tsen's painting is recognizable by major art magazines and reputable art galleries.
The artist most often paints cityscapes in San Francisco, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree.
He performs his oil paintings in a unique "floating" manner - some believe that because of this technique, his oil works can be confused with watercolors. Xing-Yao Tsen considers the best time for creating landscapes at sunset and dawn.
Pedro Campos
Another fan of photorealism is Pedro Campos, a Spanish artist from Madrid. This oil painting is easy to confuse with photography, but who would have thought! One way or another, Pedro's paintings lead the audience into indescribable delight.
Master class in oil painting. Swan pond in the park
Drawing a summer landscape
Suetova Alena Alexandrovna, teacher of additional educationPlace of work: MBDOU kindergarten No. 114 of the city of Nizhny Novgorod
Through the summer twilight of the park
On the edge of artificial waters
Beauty, maiden, savage -
The high swan is swimming.
A snow-white miracle floats,
Animal full of dreams
Hesitation in the bosom of the bay
Lilac shades of birches.
Her head is silky
And the mantle of snow is whiter,
And marvelous two amethysts
Flickering in her eye sockets.
And a bright radiance pours;
Over the white curve of the back,
And she's all like a statue
Waves raised to the sky ..,
N. Zabolotsky
Description: MK is intended for creative people, teachers of fine arts and teachers of additional education of artistic and aesthetic orientation.
Purpose: use in drawing classes, for participation in competitions, exhibitions, interior decoration or as a gift.
Target: oil painting landscape
Tasks:
Educational:
Learn to work with oil paints
Expand the idea of \u200b\u200bworking with a palette knife
Contribute to the development of creative abilities
Learn to use different ways of creating an image in drawing, combining different methods in one drawing in order to obtain an expressive image
Developing:
Develop aesthetic sense of form, color, rhythm, composition
Develop a sense of confidence
Educational:
To cultivate the ability to bring the work begun to the end,
Cultivate a positive attitude towards one's own activity, its result
Contribute to the development of a positive attitude towards drawing and creativity in general
Cultivate interest in landscape painting.
Materials:
canvas size 40x50 cm
palette knife
bottle for solvent
solvent
rag
palette
oil paint (zinc white, medium cadmium yellow, dark cadmium red, fts blue, burnt umber)
I used a photo of a swan pond that I took while walking in the park.
Stages of work:
Nature is full of colors. For the liveliness of the work, we will write without a sketch, “by eye”. Before you start painting, go over the solvent on the canvas (moisten the canvas).
Since all the work is occupied by greenery, it needs to be diluted somehow. And the contrasting color in relation to green - red - will help in this. The remaining place without green is the sky. Due to him, we will freshen up the work. Take a lot of white paint and a drop of red to get a white color with a slight pink tint. Do not spare the paint so that later there is something to mix with. Apply it sweepingly, in different directions with a palette knife in the upper half of the canvas.
The second tool we'll take a closer look at is the rag! Mix blue and brown paint, you will get the color of the shade of green.
We collected a rag in a lump with a “rose” and with “poke-like” movements we gain a lot of greenery. And we rub the water from side to side to the left to the right. At the bottom, we leave the white gap of the sky on the reflection.
Go on, put another layer on the background trees and water to make them more deaf. And with a poke of a rag, show in the foreground in the middle a tree on an island.
We do not use pure green paint. Therefore, mix more yellow paint and less blue paint to get a light green color (add white if necessary). On the horizon line, outline the bushes and grass in the background. Work flat with a palette knife. The movement goes from top to bottom. Add a touch of green to the reflection of the water. Rub with a palette knife from top to bottom and blend the edges with your finger.
With the tip of a palette knife in the forest, mark the tree trunks. You scratch lines on the canvas, hints of stripes (tree trunks) somewhere they are more obvious and bright, somewhere weaker. Such a simple action will already create the effect of denseness.
Let's make a sandy shore of a swan island in the middle of the pond. To do this, mix white, yellow and a drop of brown paint (you can add reddish). The lower layers are mixed with the paint applied on top during the painting process, creating interesting and complex colors.
And also it's time to add deafness and darkness in the pond. Mix black paint with blue and brown paint and also from top to bottom with a palette knife, blending the edges with your finger.
Select the tree in the middle. For light foliage, mix white, yellow and a drop of blue. "Pat" tap the palette knife on the canvas, showing lush leaves.
Go on. At the same time, add color manifestations (yellowish, pinkish) to the reflection of stagnant water. We put the paint with a palette knife and drive it flat up and down. Remember to soften the reflection with your finger.
Add more yellow to your light green color. Select the light areas of the bushes in the background, and the lightest foliage of the tree in the middle. As well as splashes of water.
Scratch a few more birch trunks in the background. Mix black with brown and with the tip of a palette knife draw a dark main tree trunk in the middle. To draw a slightly clumsy trunk, relax the brush, the line is sometimes interrupted, we raggedly draw the line of the trunk. Don't draw branches. They are buried in leaves.
Two birch trees appear on the island, but we write them with a palette knife, and do not scratch them! Take white paint on the edge of the palette knife and from the bottom, leading up, draw the trunk from left to right. The bottom of the birch is darker, add black.
Pay a little more attention to the reflection! Thin white trunks were applied to the water and shaded! Various blotches of different shades of yellow, brownish.
And take a closer look, there is a grid under water, draw a thin white line from the island to the side.
Symbolically mark the white houses of swans with multi-colored roofs. Don't draw, just outline. And also a couple of red buoys on the grid (and reflections from them). A lump of rag with light green paint, you can poke through the trees in the background.
