Monday, June 10, 2013

Stroke with the paints

I had ordered Bob Ross Paint set as I wanted to challenge my skills. I never done oil painting before only pencil, charcoal, and oil pastels.  So the oil painting is my next challenge.  I always liked Bob Ross and used to watch him all the time in the 80s.  I should had taken up oil painting back then, I would had become a professional by now.  But hey, better late than never.

I would have to say that for a first attempt with his oil paints, I did pretty good.  Problem were that the canvas was pretty small and I couldn't get the trees right.  I had hard time with the brushes too.  I should had used the very small brush rather than the big brush.  I am wondering if I had placed too much water base on the canvas because the mountain wasn't working correctly from the beginning.

I think it will take a lot of practice on controlling the paints and brushes and brush strokes.


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