Oil Painting
The Steps to Making an Oil Painting
1. Sketch what you will paint.
2. Measure and cut the wood for your canvas.
3. Glue the wood together.
4. Staple the canvas unto the frame, and make it wet.
5. After it has dried, gesso the canvas.
6. After it has dried, gesso it again.
7. Copy your sketch unto your canvas.
8. Start painting!!
“Sunset over the Mountains”
The inspiration for my painting was a beautiful picture of a mountain with a lake in the front, surrounded by flowers that I found on the Internet.
I did several layers of blue, purple, and white on my lake, and layers of green for the grass. I purposly did not mix the red and purple for the sky because I liked the multicolored look.
The mountains are all different shades because real mountains are not all the same boring shade of gray.