Painter’s Hub

It is a great pleasure to showcase a gallery of paintings by Artist K.Jayachander who worked on the pop music theme. The artist has a deep desire to share his art work to other pop music art lovers. In all these paintings you can see the influence of pop music and his contemporary innovative compositions. Click hereto see the gallery…

In the last series we saw about oil painting , in this issue let us see digg…
When you visit an art store in your area, you will exited to see the art materials and you will for sure purchase a few colora and art mateirla.  are requried to start oil painting.

1. a good quality oil canvas,
2. brushes in the number of 1,3,5,7,9,11
3. a good quality 12 artist oil colors
4. linseed oil
These are the basic item you need before you start painting. Once you are set, the next task is to select a subject to paint. You have many subjects to draw. And this is the most important step to deside.

You can select protrait, landscapes, stil life and abstract. Many think that once you have learnt the techniques of oil painting you have completed the course in oil, but the reality is that you need to

bring life in your paintings – “the aesthetic”. This is very important. When you see any great masters paintings you like it. have you thought why are those paintings so wounderful. It is beacuse they have

life. Each and every artist has his or her own styel of painting and theu often come with innovative techiques by experimentations. This very common in amature artists. Who experiments with lines, colors and

with mixed media . This approach is very important for learning art.

Try to paint and if you feel you are not happy with the result do not feel sad. It is just ok. Just do an another painting  the more you paint the more you learn. 

If you have a few paintings to share with fellow readers do send us to sudarsan.yennamalli [at] gmail.com

We will publish it in our next issue…

Wishing you a Happy New Year 2009…

I welcome you all to a new series on oil painting. From this issue we will explore on oil painting and its amazing techniques. Oil painting is a fascinating medium. The joy of painting is elevated 1000 folds not only during the learning stage but more than that during the painting process.  

Any painting medium uses pigments to paint, so even in an oil painting we use pigment, but the difference is that these pigments are mixed with special oil called linseed oil. Many artists used other oils like poppy seed oil, safflower oil. But the most common oil practice is using linseed oil.

 Materials 

Before we dig deeper let us see the basic materials we need before we start the painting process. We do need a good set of hog brushes. Many different types of brushes are available, for beginners select 1,3,5,7 number brushes.

You also need a few colors, but to begin with you need 12 colors. Then as you progress you will be feel the need for more colors. During the next couple of articles I will explain how to create a specific color palette for your painting needs.

One of the most important materials that many beginners not give much importance is for the canvas. Many types of canvas are available in the market with different textures and in various sizes.

You will be urged to take a bigger canvas due to the interest in painting. But it is always advisable to begin with a small size. Preferably  take a size of a A3 size. And also a color palette is good for mixing colors.

The First Step

Once the canvas is selected, now you have to start the painting process. Now the crucial question comes to your mind. What to draw? You have various subjects to draw. Say still life, landscape or portrait. Before you paint sketch the subject with a HB pencil and compose the subject well. Composition is an important topic which I will cover in detail in the future issues. This article focuses on oil painting and its techniques. Once the subject is selected for painting, start the sketching and apply colors in your canvas.

In the next article we will explore more …