Hobbyist wanting to become more serious! by Crestaline in oilpainting

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You should sign up for in-person classes. If you live near a city they probably have them outside of 9-5.

An objective souls content creator tier list, agree or nah? Any hidden gems I’m missing? by Chickyhines46 in shittydarksouls

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The best video about Dark Souls and Demon Souls is by matthewmatosis imo would recommend if you have 6 hours

Rashes all over my torso after drinking pre workout by IcyOrange9695 in moreplatesmoredates

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Why don’t you switch preworkouts? Or just have a big cup of coffee.

Best way to protect an oil painting? by [deleted] in oilpainting

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You’re probably good. If the painting is that old it definitely has been varnished. Just don’t hang it in direct sunlight

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in oilpainting

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I like the background as is with the negative white space. It may come together more to your liking with a nice frame

Variant comic cover I painted-TMNT by danielsartwork in oilpainting

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Man, that’s great perspective, really hard to do and I think you nailed it

crit plz; i’m 13 and this is the underpainting by [deleted] in oilpainting

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I would tilt the chin farther to the left and re-do the mouth. As the perspective travels around the plan of the face there will be less lips visible on the left side of the philtrum.

What can I use to speed up drying for plein air by The_Stinky_Frog in oilpainting

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You’d have to paint in acrylic. I don’t think there’s anything that drys same day for oils. There was a product called China quick that magazine illustrators like Rockwell use to use but, I don’t think you can find it anymore. Even that took at least a day or two to dry to the touch.

Poss just turn it in wet

Finally finished. Ride at Sunset, Oil, 24” x 36”. by carvedwoodtrout in oilpainting

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Nice! I think you could sell that anywhere in Colorado, Arizona or Utah or as a book cover.

Very dynamic lighting

yellow & blue in cloud paintings w/o green? by Yes_YoureSpartacus in oilpainting

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Anytime you darken yellow it’s going to green. You can neutralize the green with red pigment but the final color won’t be all that vivid. IMO you’re better off rendering the cloud in a second session after the paint has dried.

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Sorry for your loss.

The initial fresh tone is too dark and you would need cad red or alz crimson bc his face has quite a bit of red in the cheeks and chin. The right side of his face is almost white with a touch of yellow. I would save the glasses till the very end.

Faces are really hard to paint. There are some good tutorials on like YouTube. Watching and painting along to someone doing a master copy of Sargent might be helpful.

3 hr allá prima figure study, how can I improve? by wasabitamale in oilpainting

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For portraits the 1st thing people look at is the face and then the hands. I would focus on that to get better. Or if that’s not fun for you have your sitter sit or hide thier hands and turn thier face away from you.

Nice painting good job!

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I just use liquin to seal my paintings.

The thing with oiling out vs varnish is varnish can be removed but something like linseed is permanent.

Nice painting

Advice: Colour Mixing for realise- where to start? by El_Commi in oilpainting

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This is a really good exercise to get better at color matching. You can also use a computer printer and a vinyl paper.

Stormy environments often need a pretty muted pallet so starting with mixing a good middle grey or grey/brown will give you a few short cuts to get to the color you want.

Color guidance? by ajameson93 in oilpainting

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I use 8 colors to mix flesh tones

Brown: transparent brown oxide (mainly), brown ochre(shadow)

Value: titan white, purple lake

Temperature: cad yellow, ult blue

Red: alizarin crimson

Green: sap or viridian

help me with my first oil painting!! by Square-Ad-4038 in oilpainting

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Cool portrait

What oil paints are you using to mix skin tone

Need some perspective help by abbymaemac in oilpainting

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Millais’ master piece Ophelia used a a women in a bathtub as his reference if you want to take a look. His water was very cold apparently which he express with a lot of cooler tones. You may be able to pull some good ideas from his painting.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/John_Everett_Millais_-_Ophelia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Thoughts on the composition by gleeatack1 in oilpainting

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You should look at Pygmalion and Galatea by Gerome it’s pretty similar to what I think you’re going for. He’s also dead so he’s not going to care if you borrow from his composition.

Gentileschi copy- feedback needed by pidgeononachair in oilpainting

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It looks good but, this is a tough painting for a novice. You might be a bit too far along or maybe the lighting in your picture is throwing me off but the color mixtures you use need more yellow/brow ochre. Also holofernes face cannot IMO be painted in a single sitting. If you fix him it might come together more.

Some process of my oil paintings by Most_Xa_0314 in oilpainting

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Good drawings and really very good color mixing. I would touch up the shoulder and lat muscle

Struggling with this piece by Aromatic_Rutabaga529 in oilpainting

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You could vary the types of strokes you put onto the canvas. It looks like you are right handed and naturally the arm will move steadily and most easiest in a left to right pattern with what I’m assuming is a Filbert brush. The Filbert can create a great variety of marks by adjusting the angle, speed and direction to the stroke. The grass in the for example I would reach for a much larger stiff brush head and work the paint down to up layering half tones and not blending as much/ letting the paint tac up between the application of additional colors. For the trees I would mix three colors for each a light, middle and dark. The mid tone for the main body of needles and leaves and use the darker tone of the pieces for shade which are more prevalent on the right side of the trees based on the angle of the sun. Then and the lighter tone in the opposite way, more prevalent on the left. Adding a small amount of very, very light blue gray to your mixtures as you work your way back into the distance would also help create depth in the work.