Painting with oils

[Reynard]

Try here for Alwyn Crawshaw books.

Oh, thank you. I'll go have a gander.

 

[Aperitif]

Right here
https://www.cassart.co.uk/painting/..._brush_series_201_cass_exclusive_set_of_4.htm

https://www.cassart.co.uk/painting/...gian_oil_38ml_set_of_10_including_brush.htm#b

https://www.cassart.co.uk/painting/surfaces/cotton_canvas/winsor_newton_deep_edge_canvas.htm
I may have the canvas think wrong but i paid £2.20 for something that looked like these .

https://www.youtube.com/user/BobRossInc

Cass are pretty good fun to wander around...I seem to always end up with a set of Staedtler pigment pens! On New Years eve, I wanted to give the daughter of a friend some oilbars/oil pad etc and Cass offer a set of 12 for 39.99. In the shop the same product was marked 49.99. They'll reduce the price but always check £ online if you're going for anything specific. Atlantis is the other treasure trove...BIG paper, and a big store. Opposite Bunhill graveyard in the City,

 

[Aperitif]

Let me know what it's like when it arrives - I might get a copy.

@wheresthetorch Today's post brings a book in immaculate condition:

 

[wheresthetorch]

@wheresthetorch Today's post brings a book in immaculate condition:
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Looks good - I might get meself a copy.

 

[tyred]

Inspired by this thread I decided to get my paints (acrylic) out for the first time in many years. I was never very good in the first place and the lay-off hasn't done me much good. Sense of perspective a bit off and I can't seem to make the bushes look real. I forgot the doorknob and locker!

It is very, very loosely based on this

Thatched Cottage Malin Head by Bryan Wallace, on Flickr

 

[Reynard]

If you find perspective is a pain, you could always grid the sketch

 

[TreeHuggery]

Inspired by this thread I decided to get my paints (acrylic) out for the first time in many years. I was never very good in the first place and the lay-off hasn't done me much good. Sense of perspective a bit off and I can't seem to make the bushes look real. I forgot the doorknob and locker!
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It is very, very loosely based on this

Thatched Cottage Malin Head by Bryan Wallace, on Flickr

A good start though. hope you enjoyed doing it, and it's the first of many

 

[Salar]

Well done for getting back into it and don't knock yourself

The trick with trees and bushes is to try and show some of the background through them.

Here's some Welsh cottages in watercolours and ink.

 

[Aperitif]

I filled a few books with similar - I was off the bike and needed to 'just do' ...plenty of 'Urban Sketching' - just walk, sit, draw - didn't matter what but had to be in real time - not from photos etc.

Here's another spiral too: One line in square 1, two lines in square 2 - a simple formula, but trying to introduce an aesthetic into a pretty ordinary thing, to see what happens. This example is 2B pencil in 1cm squares...hence 73.81 metres of graphite (approx.)

Oops!

 

[Salar]

Nice,

Rotrings, too pricey for me I'd break them

I do use uni pins (Mitsubishi !)which are pretty good, but find them too uniform and dry up in fine sizes for outdoor sketching.

So I use old Gillet dipping nibs, cocktail sticks, matches or whatever's lying around.

 

[Aperitif]

Nice,

Rotrings, too pricey for me I'd break them

I do use uni pins (Mitsubishi !)which are pretty good, but find them too uniform and dry up in fine sizes for outdoor sketching.

So I use old Gillet dipping nibs, cocktail sticks, matches or whatever's lying around.

Anything goes! My junior attempts at calligraphy were made using Bryant & May wooden matchboxes and bits of garden cane with a slit in them! Gillots 303 are a favourite.
As mentioned earlier, the Staedtler pigment pens are nice, and long-lasting, ergo value for money.

And, sure the Rotrings are expensive but Lamy is the 'go to' for today...easy to change nibs, inks. Mine is on black out of habit. A colour would scare me!
Also, on Amazon, it's possible to get a whole rodeo of pens, ready to 'break-in' or just break, without too much consequence...
I'll try and find an 'oil painting' to get this thread back on topic...

 

[Reynard]

I use the Faber Castell Pitt artists pens for pen & wash stuff - also bought in Cass Art LOL

 

[Salar]

Yes,

Better get it back to painting with oils.

I tried oils, but couldn't get on with them, waiting too long to "go off". I've acrylics which I could use, but they just sit there unopened.

 

[Dave 123]

I made these last night. I get bored on dark nights!

 

[srw]

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That is particularly lovely.