I seldom start a painting in the same way each time. I have no recipe or formula. What I sometimes do, is use up paint left over on my palette to start a new painting at the end of a day. This painting can often turn out to be amazing, because all you want to do is use up the paint quickly to clean the palette, so you are in a very spontaneous and loose frame of mind.
This is one way to start a painting.
If I have an idea of what I want to paint, I use my references to block it in. If I dont have something specific in mind I will simply take one colour of my choice and coat the canvas with a colour mixed down with genuine turpentine or medium (which could consist of alkyd and/or one third linseed oil and two thirds genuine turpentine. This leaves the canvas open to any idea I may have and does away with the stark white canvas.
Yesterday, I had finished a session of painting on my large commission, and had a substantial amount of paint left on my palette. I had planned to paint a series of small seascape impressions, so I laid my canvasses out. I then took my references and did some underpaintings with the left over paint from my day's painting. I had fun, drawing out some of them in ultramarine blue or burnt sienna, (for this you can use any colour of your choice.) Others I blocked in with large brush strokes.
This is the perfect time for experimentation because you have nothing specific tying you down.
I leave these overnight or even for a day or two, so the underpainting is completely dry before I carry on. Each process of painting should be fun, spontaneous and joyful and this process makes for a really good start.
This is one way to start a painting.
If I have an idea of what I want to paint, I use my references to block it in. If I dont have something specific in mind I will simply take one colour of my choice and coat the canvas with a colour mixed down with genuine turpentine or medium (which could consist of alkyd and/or one third linseed oil and two thirds genuine turpentine. This leaves the canvas open to any idea I may have and does away with the stark white canvas.
Yesterday, I had finished a session of painting on my large commission, and had a substantial amount of paint left on my palette. I had planned to paint a series of small seascape impressions, so I laid my canvasses out. I then took my references and did some underpaintings with the left over paint from my day's painting. I had fun, drawing out some of them in ultramarine blue or burnt sienna, (for this you can use any colour of your choice.) Others I blocked in with large brush strokes.
This is the perfect time for experimentation because you have nothing specific tying you down.
I leave these overnight or even for a day or two, so the underpainting is completely dry before I carry on. Each process of painting should be fun, spontaneous and joyful and this process makes for a really good start.
"Spontaneous Seascape"
"Spontaneity is being present in the present moment"
Wei Wu Wei
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