Oil painting is one of the most interesting, versatile and durable painting techniques.

Paints

home distinguishing feature this type of painting - paint. They are produced by mixing vegetable oil (linseed or poppy) with colored pigments. The drying period of paints is very long (from 3 to 30 days). This property of this artistic material has its advantages and disadvantages.

Solvent

Thinner for oil paints turpentine or white spirit. Since these substances have a very pungent odor, odorless, purified solvents are now available in art stores. Often, a tee is used to dilute oil paints (a mixture of linseed oil, turpentine and varnish).

Canvas

Oil paints are very resistant and durable. Most often, oil is written on canvas stretched on wooden stretchers. Linen or cotton fabric covered with several layers of a special primer is used as a canvas. You will learn about the features and rules for selecting canvases on stretchers from the publication. They also paint with oil on a specially prepared basis made of wood, fiberboard, plywood, silk, stone, paper, and even plaster.

Easel

You will also need an easel - this is a very convenient device for working on canvas. They are the most different types, from big ones that are bulky and stable, to small ones that are foldable and light enough to travel with. For a beginner amateur, a folding tripod is enough.

Palette

Paints are mixed on a palette, which can be a varnished wooden board, a glass surface, a small canvas, or smooth surface from plastic. On the palette you can mix different colors and get the necessary colors and shades. How to do this you will learn from the publication. In order for the palette to serve you for a long time - keep it clean, a short instruction will tell you how to do it.

Tools

In order to paint a picture with oil paints, various artistic tools are used: brushes, palette knife, rags, fingers or other experimental devices (blades, cellophane, roller, etc.).

Oil paintings are painted in one session - alla prima, or in several approaches.

varnish

To protect the paint layer, such works are covered with a special varnish. Since the oil takes a long time to dry, it is best to do this 2-3 months after painting, depending on the thickness of the paint layer.

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. 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 kilometers.

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's nice to see rich blues and golds, and it's a joy to have 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 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 felt 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 in art school Zheleznogorsk, which is considered 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.

BUT winter forest, bowed under the weight of a snowfall that has just passed, seems impregnable, but it still calls to get through 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 transfer 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.

Master class in oil painting. Swan pond in the park

Drawing a summer landscape

Suetova Alena Alexandrovna, teacher additional education
Place 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
Promote development creativity
Learn to use in drawing different ways creating an image, 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 make it White color with a slight pink tint. Do not spare the paint so that later there is something to mix with. Apply it broadly different sides 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 poke a rag to show foreground in the middle is a tree on an island.

We do not use pure green paint. Therefore, mix more yellow paint and less blue 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.

Into your light green color add more yellow 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.

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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.

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Content

The best decoration of the interior at all times were drawings. Oil paintings on canvas in modern world are created both manually by the artist and with the help of a printer. Correct selection canvases will complement any design, adding an interesting accent to it. Learn about the features of the paintings before purchasing, so as not to get lost in the variety of motives, techniques, styles.

What is oil painting

The creation of paintings has its own nuances, which depend on the properties of the materials. Oil painting- This is a technique that uses paints based on vegetable oil: linseed, poppy, walnuts. An oil painting on canvas is painted using different techniques, the choice of techniques depends on the pigments of the paint. They are selected depending on the desired effect, on which picture is more successful to sell.

Not all types of paints can be used for glazing. There are such types of pigments:

1. Glazing - transparent, due to which a feeling of depth and gloss is created. Their advantage is that when mixed they do not lose color.
2. Opaque pigments have high definition. Suitable for painting in one layer due to the density, but when mixing shades they become gray.

The main painting techniques that are in demand today are: watercolor in wet (a la prima) and multi-layered techniques. In the first version, when creating a picture, the oil is not allowed to dry. Artists paint in one go or briefly leave an unfinished study in a damp place, using a special varnish to dissolve the dried film before applying the next layer.

The second technique is multi-layered writing, which differs in that each level of paint is dried after application. The work on oil paintings is carried out in several stages:

1. For underpainting use contrasting tones. Grisaille is often used: white and dark paint.
2. Paste registration involves the application of the next layer. These will be the semitones of the future canvas.
3. Glazing is the layering of translucent colored paints over the prescribed tones.

Oil paintings for the interior

The choice of canvas plot depends on the design of the room. Paintings on canvas for the interior should be in harmony in style and size with pieces of furniture. Classic options selection of the genre of the etude:

• a romantic motif is suitable for the bedroom: a bright sunset, a family portrait, an art poster with animals;
• the kitchen involves the use of still lifes in the design;
• for the living room, you can choose a more elegant pattern. Here it is appropriate to boast of the author's reproduction (for example, "Girl with Peaches", "Woman in Red") or a beautiful canvas on the theme of nature.

Buy oil painting on canvas

You can choose a canvas in the online store, at specialized fairs of masters. Avito is one of the resources where oil paintings are sold. It is convenient because the necessary information is displayed here: how much the work costs, high-resolution photos are attached, the price is indicated in rubles. People from Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as from other cities, can sell canvases, and mail delivery helps to get a picture even from a rare master from the outback.

Flowers

A poster in cold colors will be an interesting and beautiful solution for the interior, combining an inexpensive price and originality:

• name of the painting: Bouquet;
• price: 364 rubles;
• characteristics: purple-blue flower composition size 20x28 cm is suitable for decorating a table or wall;
• pluses: a bright study of nature on a floral theme will add an interesting accent to a classic interior;
• cons: paper base.

A beautiful combination of sunflowers and fruits in warm shades will be an excellent interior addition to the living room or kitchen:

• name of the painting: Pears and flowers;
• price: 2300 rubles;
• characteristics: on a canvas measuring 50x60 cm, an etude is depicted in blurred outlines of a yellow-brown scale;
• pluses: the presence of a stretcher;
• cons: requires a lot of free space on the wall.

Oil on canvas flowers - reproduction famous work written by Hans Bolognier, reflects romanticism and tells about the love of nature:

• name of the painting: Bouquet;
• price: 5460 rubles;
• characteristics: a high-quality copy made on canvas will complement the classic interior with calm noble shades;
• pluses: high realism;
• cons: not the original, decent work, but a reproduction.

Winter landscape

Emil Schuffenecker is a famous master of post-impressionism. One of the quality reproductions that is in demand is:

• name of the painting: Winter landscape;
• price: 5320 rubles;
• characteristics: discreet tones and broad strokes give the sketch nobility;
• pluses: original technique;
• cons: does not create accents, calm tones, if placed incorrectly, can be lost in the interior.

• name of the painting: Winter day;
• price: 76000 rubles;
• characteristics: original canvas about a look at nature in winter, made on canvas 50x70 cm in size;
• pluses: high quality, a single copy;
• cons: it will be expensive, you will have to overpay for uniqueness.

Cold winter, made in muted colors, will decorate the interior in a classic or modern style:

• name of the painting: Winter house;
• price: 2300 rubles;
• characteristics: vertical plot composition on a forest theme, made in gray-blue tones;
• pluses: warm shades will add coziness to the living room or bedroom;
• cons: requires an additional purchase of a baguette.

cityscapes

A painting is not necessarily an expensive purchase. Nice evening city in muted colors with bright accents will appeal to sophisticated natures:

• name of the painting: sunset in Paris;
• price: 303 rubles;
• characteristics: a panel measuring 20x27 cm with the most romantic city is ideal for a bedroom;
• pluses: cheap, well-chosen colors;
• cons: paper base.

An urban look with a tower that seems to have stepped out of the books of Wales will complement the interior of the future:

• name of the painting: City landscape;
• price: 12000 rub.;
• characteristics: canvas 120x30 cm in shades of brown depicting part of a building in a classical style;
• pluses: high-quality work on canvas;
• cons: elongated shape requires space in the interior.

The antique atmosphere of the oil painting in the style of Rome - columns, a lot of greenery will successfully fit into the Art Nouveau interior:

• canvas name: City landscape;
• price: 1800 rubles;
• characteristics: a study on the theme of ancient ruins with an abundance of green hues, 60x50 cm;
• pluses: sale at a discount as part of a sale;
• cons: due to the size, it requires a lot of free space on the wall.

autumn scenery

A modular canvas on the theme of nature will look advantageous on a free wall. Fashionable composition of several components that create a single panorama:

• name of the painting: Autumn;
• price: 3774 rubles;
• characteristics: consists of 5 canvases on wooden stretchers, which depict a lone tree;
• pluses: buying a baguette is not needed;
• cons: you need a free wall to accommodate all the canvases.

A bright sketch in yellow-orange tones will tell about a forest corner in the most picturesque time of the year:

• picture name: Autumn landscape:
• price: 10560 rubles;
• characteristics: the beautiful warm tones of nature are depicted on the canvas, which is decorated with a massive gold frame;
• pluses: sold framed by a baguette, you can save on its purchase;
• cons: factory production from China.

An impressionistic canvas with many bright red accents from the artist Maurice de Vlaminck:

• name of the painting: Autumn Landscape;
• price: 5250 rubles;
• characteristics: juicy colors of autumn are depicted on canvas 20x24 cm;
• pluses: fashionable direction of painting;
• cons: it is better to view the image from a distance, therefore it is only suitable for a spacious apartment.

summer landscapes

Reproduction by artist Seago Edward tells of the sea coast in gray tones. An unusual combination of sunny season and cold colors:

• price: 5510 rubles;
• characteristics: minimalism and discreet tones allow you to balance the active interior;
• pluses: original choice of gamma;
• cons: can be lost on a light wall.

Summer in all its glory with flowers and the azure coast is presented in this sketch:

• name of the painting: Sea coast:
• price: 303 rubles;
• characteristics: canvas 30x20 cm with rose bushes near the azure sea;
• pluses: affordable cost;
• cons: the finished image will have to wait a few days after placing the order.

Rustic motifs combining a clearing, trees, images of villagers will create a cozy atmosphere:

• picture name: summer landscape;
• price: 10560 rubles;
• characteristics: classic canvas with a wooden frame, size 31x20 cm;
• pluses: the presence of a baguette;
• cons: not the original canvas, a reproduction of the work of Stanislas Lepin.

Order oil painting on canvas

Do you want to order a portrait of your loved ones? You can find a master both on the streets of the Arbat and on the Internet. Pictures can be created on special printers, the cost of the canvas starts from 1000 rubles and depends on the size. Getting a handwritten creation of the master will be more expensive - from 5000 rubles. Here the price depends not only on the dimensions, but also on the skills of the author, the materials used.