Oil Paintings. Contemporary artists: landscape painting

Master class in oil painting. Swan pond in the park

Drawing a summer landscape

Suetova Alena Alexandrovna, teacher of additional education
Place of work: MBDOU kindergarten No. 114 of the city of Nizhny Novgorod

Through the summer twilight of the park
On the edge of artificial waters
Beauty, maiden, savage -
The high swan is swimming.
A snow-white miracle floats,
Animal full of dreams
Hesitation in the bosom of the bay
Lilac shades of birches.
Her head is silky
And the mantle of snow is whiter,
And marvelous two amethysts
Flickering in her eye sockets.
And a bright radiance pours;
Over the white curve of the back,
And she's all like a statue
Waves raised to the sky ..,
N. Zabolotsky

Description: MK is intended for creative people, teachers of fine arts and teachers of additional education of artistic and aesthetic orientation.

Purpose: use in drawing classes, for participation in competitions, exhibitions, interior decoration or as a gift.

Target: oil painting landscape

Tasks:
Educational:
Learn to work with oil paints
Expand the idea of \u200b\u200bworking with a palette knife
Contribute to the development of creative abilities
Learn to use different ways of creating an image in drawing, combining different methods in one drawing in order to obtain an expressive image
Developing:
Develop aesthetic sense of form, color, rhythm, composition
Develop a sense of confidence
Educational:
To cultivate the ability to bring the work begun to the end,
Cultivate a positive attitude towards one's own activity, its result
Contribute to the development of a positive attitude towards drawing and creativity in general
Cultivate interest in landscape painting.

Materials:
canvas size 40x50 cm
palette knife
bottle for solvent
solvent
rag
palette
oil paint (zinc white, medium cadmium yellow, dark cadmium red, fts blue, burnt umber)

I used a photo of a swan pond that I took while walking in the park.

Stages of work:
Nature is full of colors. For the liveliness of the work, we will write without a sketch, “by eye”. Before you start painting, go over the solvent on the canvas (moisten the canvas).
Since all the work is occupied by greenery, it needs to be diluted somehow. And the contrasting color in relation to green - red - will help in this. The remaining place without green is the sky. Due to him, we will freshen up the work. Take a lot of white paint and a drop of red to get a white color with a slight pink tint. Do not spare the paint so that later there is something to mix with. Apply it sweepingly, in different directions with a palette knife in the upper half of the canvas.
The second tool we'll take a closer look at is the rag! Mix blue and brown paint, you will get the color of the shade of green.
We collected a rag in a lump with a “rose” and with “poke-like” movements we gain a lot of greenery. And we rub the water from side to side to the left to the right. At the bottom, we leave the white gap of the sky on the reflection.

Go on, put another layer on the background trees and water to make them more deaf. And with a poke of a rag, show in the foreground in the middle a tree on an island.

We do not use pure green paint. Therefore, mix more yellow paint and less blue paint to get a light green color (add white if necessary). On the horizon line, outline the bushes and grass in the background. Work flat with a palette knife. The movement goes from top to bottom. Add a touch of green to the reflection of the water. Rub with a palette knife from top to bottom and blend the edges with your finger.
With the tip of a palette knife in the forest, mark the tree trunks. You scratch lines on the canvas, hints of stripes (tree trunks) somewhere they are more obvious and bright, somewhere weaker. Such a simple action will already create the effect of denseness.

Let's make a sandy shore of a swan island in the middle of the pond. To do this, mix white, yellow and a drop of brown paint (you can add reddish). The lower layers are mixed with the paint applied on top during the painting process, creating interesting and complex colors.
And also it's time to add deafness and darkness in the pond. Mix black paint with blue and brown paint and also from top to bottom with a palette knife, blending the edges with your finger.

Select the tree in the middle. For light foliage, mix white, yellow and a drop of blue. "Pat" tap the palette knife on the canvas, showing lush leaves.

Go on. At the same time, add color manifestations (yellowish, pinkish) to the reflection of stagnant water. We put the paint with a palette knife and drive it flat up and down. Remember to soften the reflection with your finger.

Add more yellow to your light green color. Select the light areas of the bushes in the background, and the lightest foliage of the tree in the middle. As well as splashes of water.

Scratch a few more birch trunks in the background. Mix black with brown and with the tip of a palette knife draw a dark main tree trunk in the middle. To draw a slightly clumsy trunk, relax the brush, the line is sometimes interrupted, we raggedly draw the line of the trunk. Don't draw branches. They are buried in leaves.

Two birch trees appear on the island, but we write them with a palette knife, and do not scratch them! Take white paint on the edge of the palette knife and from the bottom, leading up, draw the trunk from left to right. The bottom of the birch is darker, add black.
Pay a little more attention to the reflection! Thin white trunks were applied to the water and shaded! Various blotches of different shades of yellow, brownish.
And take a closer look, there is a grid under water, draw a thin white line from the island to the side.

Symbolically mark the white houses of swans with multi-colored roofs. Don't draw, just outline. And also a couple of red buoys on the grid (and reflections from them). A lump of rag with light green paint, you can poke through the trees in the background.

Evgeny Sedov

When hands grow from the right place, life is more fun :)

Content

The best decoration of the interior at all times were drawings. Oil paintings on canvas in the modern world are created both by hand by the artist and with the help of a printer. The right choice of canvas will complement any design, adding an interesting accent to it. Learn about the features of the paintings before purchasing, so as not to get lost in the variety of motives, techniques, styles.

What is oil painting

The creation of paintings has its own nuances, which depend on the properties of the materials. Oil painting is a technique that uses paints based on vegetable oils: linseed, poppy, walnuts. An oil painting on canvas is painted using different techniques, the choice of techniques depends on the pigments of the paint. They are selected depending on the desired effect, on which picture is more successful to sell.

Not all types of paints can be used for glazing. There are such types of pigments:

Glazing - transparent, due to which a feeling of depth and gloss is created. Their advantage is that when mixed they do not lose color.
Opaque pigments have high definition. Suitable for painting in one layer due to the density, but when mixing shades they become gray.

The main painting techniques that are in demand today are: watercolor in wet (a la prima) and multi-layered techniques. In the first version, when creating a picture, the oil is not allowed to dry. Artists paint in one go or briefly leave an unfinished study in a damp place, using a special varnish to dissolve the dried film before applying the next layer.

The second technique is multi-layered writing, which differs in that each level of paint is dried after application. The work on oil paintings is carried out in several stages:

For underpainting use contrasting tones. Grisaille is often used: white and dark paint.
Paste registration involves the application of the next layer. These will be the semitones of the future canvas.
Glazing is the layering of translucent colored paints over the prescribed tones.

Oil paintings for the interior

The choice of canvas plot depends on the design of the room. Paintings on canvas for the interior should be in harmony in style and size with pieces of furniture. Classic options for choosing the genre of etude:

a romantic motif is suitable for the bedroom: a bright sunset, a family portrait, an art poster with animals;
the kitchen involves the use of still lifes in the design;
for the living room, you can choose a more elegant pattern. Here it is appropriate to boast of the author's reproduction (for example, "Girl with Peaches", "Woman in Red") or a beautiful canvas on the theme of nature.

Buy oil painting on canvas

You can choose a canvas in the online store, at specialized fairs of masters. Avito is one of the resources where oil paintings are sold. It is convenient because the necessary information is displayed here: how much the work costs, high-resolution photos are attached, the price is indicated in rubles. People from Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as from other cities, can sell canvases, and mail delivery helps to get a picture even from a rare master from the outback.

Flowers

A poster in cold colors will be an interesting and beautiful solution for the interior, combining an inexpensive price and originality:

name of the painting: Bouquet;
price: 364 rubles;
characteristics: purple-blue flower arrangement measuring 20x28 cm is suitable for decorating a table or wall;
pluses: a bright study of nature on a floral theme will add an interesting accent to a classic interior;
cons: paper base.

A beautiful combination of sunflowers and fruits in warm shades will be an excellent interior addition to the living room or kitchen:

name of the painting: Pears and flowers;
price: 2300 rubles;
characteristics: on a canvas measuring 50x60 cm, an etude is depicted in blurred outlines of a yellow-brown scale;
pluses: the presence of a stretcher;
cons: requires a lot of free space on the wall.

Flowers in oil on canvas - a reproduction of the famous work of the author Hans Bolognier, reflects romanticism and tells about the love of nature:

name of the painting: Bouquet;
price: 5460 rubles;
characteristics: a high-quality copy made on canvas will complement the classic interior with calm noble shades;
pluses: high realism;
cons: not the original, decent work, but a reproduction.

Winter landscape

Emil Schuffenecker is a famous master of post-impressionism. One of the quality reproductions that is in demand is:

name of the painting: Winter landscape;
price: 5320 rubles;
characteristics: discreet tones and broad strokes give the sketch nobility;
pluses: original technique;
cons: does not create accents, calm tones, if placed incorrectly, can be lost in the interior.

name of the painting: Winter day;
price: 76000 rubles;
characteristics: original canvas about a look at nature in winter, made on canvas 50x70 cm in size;
pluses: high quality, a single copy;
cons: it will be expensive, you will have to overpay for uniqueness.

Cold winter, made in muted colors, will decorate the interior in a classic or modern style:

name of the painting: Winter house;
price: 2300 rubles;
characteristics: vertical story composition on a forest theme, made in gray-blue tones;
pluses: warm shades will add coziness to the living room or bedroom;
cons: requires an additional purchase of a baguette.

cityscapes

A painting is not necessarily an expensive purchase. A beautiful evening city in muted colors with bright accents will appeal to sophisticated natures:

name of the painting: sunset in Paris;
price: 303 rubles;
characteristics: a panel measuring 20x27 cm with the most romantic city is ideal for a bedroom;
pluses: cheap, well-chosen colors;
cons: paper base.

An urban look with a tower that seems to have stepped out of the books of Wales will complement the interior of the future:

name of the painting: City landscape;
price: 12000 rub.;
characteristics: canvas 120x30 cm in shades of brown depicting part of a building in a classical style;
pluses: high-quality work on canvas;
cons: elongated shape requires space in the interior.

The antique atmosphere of the oil painting in the style of Rome - columns, a lot of greenery will successfully fit into the Art Nouveau interior:

canvas name: City landscape;
price: 1800 rubles;
characteristics: a study on the theme of ancient ruins with an abundance of green hues, 60x50 cm;
pluses: sale at a discount as part of a sale;
cons: due to the size, it requires a lot of free space on the wall.

autumn scenery

A modular canvas on the theme of nature will look advantageous on a free wall. Fashionable composition of several components that create a single panorama:

name of the painting: Autumn;
price: 3774 rubles;
characteristics: consists of 5 canvases on wooden stretchers, which depict a lone tree;
pluses: buying a baguette is not needed;
cons: you need a free wall to accommodate all the canvases.

A bright sketch in yellow-orange tones will tell about a forest corner in the most picturesque time of the year:

painting title: Autumn landscape:
price: 10560 rubles;
characteristics: beautiful warm colors of nature are depicted on the canvas, which is decorated with a massive gold frame;
pluses: sold framed by a baguette, you can save on its purchase;
cons: factory production from China.

An impressionistic canvas with many bright red accents from the artist Maurice de Vlaminck:

name of the painting: Autumn Landscape;
price: 5250 rubles;
characteristics: juicy colors of autumn are depicted on canvas 20x24 cm;
pluses: fashionable direction of painting;
cons: it is better to view the image from a distance, therefore it is only suitable for a spacious apartment.

summer landscapes

Reproduction by artist Seago Edward tells of the sea coast in gray tones. An unusual combination of sunny season and cold colors:

price: 5510 rubles;
characteristics: minimalism and discreet tones allow you to balance the active interior;
pluses: original choice of gamma;
cons: can be lost on a light wall.

Summer in all its glory with flowers and the azure coast is presented in this study:

name of the painting: Sea coast:
price: 303 rubles;
characteristics: canvas 30x20 cm with rose bushes near the azure sea;
pluses: affordable cost;
cons: the finished image will have to wait a few days after placing the order.

Rustic motifs combining a clearing, trees, images of villagers will create a cozy atmosphere:

name of the painting: Summer landscape;
price: 10560 rubles;
characteristics: classic canvas with a wooden frame, size 31x20 cm;
pluses: the presence of a baguette;
cons: not the original canvas, a reproduction of the work of Stanislas Lepin.

Order oil painting on canvas

Do you want to order a portrait of your loved ones? You can find a master both on the streets of the Arbat and on the Internet. Pictures can be created on special printers, the cost of the canvas starts from 1000 rubles and depends on the size. Getting a handwritten creation of the master will be more expensive - from 5000 rubles. Here the price depends not only on the dimensions, but also on the skills of the author, the materials used.

Most people choose needlework or other artistic options as a hobby. Moreover, because of the same mass-produced goods, the demand for things made by oneself is increasing. Photos or computer images are printed multiple times. You can do a unique thing by learning how to paint oil paintings. If you watch the video lessons of famous artists, then even a beginner can understand this painting technique.

Even if you try to repeat your plot perfectly twice, you still cannot make an exact copy. This creates the uniqueness of works of art. How to start and learn how to create paintings?

Materials that will be required for work:

host.
Different colors.
Brushes.
Solvent and a small container for it.
Special palette for mixing.

Masters also use palette knife- special metal elastic shovels with wooden handles, with which paint is applied to the base. It is important for a beginner to master brushes.

In addition, the masters paint pictures on easel or a high-quality sketchbook, if they go to work in nature, to depict oil paintings from life.

Landscapes for beginners is a complex subject. It is better to create pictures with the help of imagination or using photographs. This will make it easier to depict the landscape.

According to professionals, easier to work on an easel, as it is easier to step back and look at the result of the work. At first, you can try to practice on the surface of the table, but it is better to take some board and put it on your chair at a certain slope. You will see an overview of your work and you will be able to evaluate its quality well, notice your shortcomings in time.

Remember that paint wears out quickly Therefore, you need to purchase them individually and in large quantities. The form of release is of different sizes. White paint is the fastest to leave, but black paint is consumed in very small quantities. First you need to decide on plot, and then buy paints of the appropriate colors and shades.

In order to draw an autumn bouquet, you will need one set, and for a summer bouquet, a completely different one. In order not to waste your budget on unnecessary colors, it is better to take only the necessary ones in approximately the right amount. All colors and shades can be obtained with only three main colors(yellow, red, blue), as well as white and black.

Gallery: oil painting pictures (25 photos)

Creating and selecting a base step by step

If you want to make it easier for yourself to draw, buy in specialized stores ready-made foundations for work on which you can immediately apply paint. They cost a decent amount of money, but they are just right for a beginner, as they greatly simplify the work.

Another great option is application of fiberboard. In the household of every man there are scraps of this material, which remains after the repair. It is easy to find it by asking friends, relatives or a loved one. Someone definitely used it and keeps the remains of this material in the garage.

The shape of the sides of fiberboard is different, one looks very smooth, and the other is rather rough, remotely similar to a woven structure. Both forms can be used, but more parts and layers of primer should be applied to a rough surface, otherwise the color may become dull, as the paint will sink a little into the structure of such a product.

If for the first time you decide to try to paint a landscape oil painting, you can take a ready-made fiberboard base with primer already applied. The sheet should be taken small, no more than a landscape one.

If you want to make a base from WPV with your own hands, an easy and inexpensive way is using plain gelatin, you can add PVA glue to it so that the color turns white. It is necessary to apply this primer in several layers with the preliminary drying of the past. Three times will be enough. You should feel that the surface has changed. After preparing the base, you can proceed to create a picture.

Master class oil painting

After creating the basis and preparing the materials, we proceed to work in stages:

Make a line drawing on the canvas with a simple pencil or paint.
Take care of the distribution of shadows and highlights (where there will be bright and dark areas).
Create the background and all large objects.
Engage in drawing small shapes and details.

Sometimes back off from the picture to evaluate the results of their activities. In the process of drawing, mix different shades of colors on the palette. The last action is the design of the picture for the frame.

Master class in oil painting for beginners

In this master class we will draw the sea!

Drawing Description step by step:

First of all, you need to prepare a picture with which you are going to paint the sea. Put the canvas on the easel. Create the first strokes on the canvas, making the main background. Wait a little until it dries completely. If you follow the tips of the master class, then you will be able to paint a picture with oil paints with the sea. After finishing drawing, you need to decide on the name, most importantly, do not forget to leave your initials at work. Authorship is very important because it makes your work stand out.

Conclusion

If you understand drawing, you can understand that it is not difficult to depict a landscape or paint. You can also draw with ready-made canvases, because this is the easiest thing to do.

We paint oil paintings: photo

Many people have a rather contradictory attitude towards contemporary art, so everything that was created after the 19th century causes a certain skepticism - the majority still gravitate towards more classical forms than Malevich’s Black Square and complex installations. However, modern oil painting is not always paint spilled on canvas; it can inherit the traditions of academic painting, and at the same time retain the atmosphere of the 21st century.

Modern oil painting

Among the huge number of contemporary artists there are quite a few really talented authors who paint in oils, whose painting delights even harsh critics. We have selected ten noteworthy names whose work should not leave viewers indifferent.

Valentin Gubarev

Valentin Gubarev is an artist with a strong personality and an unusual vision of the world.

Paradoxically, he chooses the themes, plots and images of his works in a rather banal way, from everyday life. They do not look like masterpieces of Russian painting, but captivate with their charming simplicity.

The strength of these paintings lies in the fact that after viewing all the subjects painted in oil on them, they look like some old acquaintances, guys from our yard. Such oil painting can be viewed indefinitely, penetrating into this strange, but very curious world.

The characters of Gubarev's paintings are familiar to everyone: they are either us or our neighbors, but, in general, this is our past and present society, seen through the lens of healthy humor, some irony, nostalgia for fun times.

Jeremy Mann

In his creative work, Mann seeks to depict his city, San Francisco, and fill these paintings with drama, mood and character.

It brings a unique atmosphere and dynamics to the urban surroundings. Many of the artist's works are inspired by rain and wet pavement reflecting street lights and neon signs.

Mann paints his works in oils on wood panels using a variety of techniques: staining surfaces with stains, erasing paint with solvent, applying sweeping strokes of ink to the canvas, and making sure to supply his painting with harmonious and colorful hues.

Gerhard Gluck

Cartoonist Gerhard Gluck is perhaps the most flamboyant and skilled satirist of the middle class in Germany. The artist's style has already become recognizable - Gluck's caricatures and other works are known throughout Germany and beyond. His characters are stocky Europeans, with faces without pronounced chins. All of them are depicted in the stories of their daily lives.

"This was the first time the Brochards had ordered something over the Internet"

"Daily Mona Lisa"

Before becoming an artist, Gluck worked as a school art teacher. One day, one of his friends suggested that he send sketches to a couple of newspapers. As a result, Gluck received a positive response from one of them, quit his job at school and continued his activities exclusively as a cartoonist.

"André would have loved to feed the fish, but he was afraid of the consequences"

All of Gluck's caricatures, although they reveal various aspects of human essence, and sometimes not the most positive, but this funny oil painting cannot be called evil.

Laurent Parcelier

The obvious talent of Laurent Parcelier emerged during his studies at the School of Art, after the publication of several of his art albums under the title "Strange World".

His popularity began to spread even further when he won a street painting competition. Fans fell in love with him for his unique style and laid-back oil painting style.

Laurent's work combines a complex color composition and a huge amount of light. Parcelier prefers to draw his paintings in a realistic manner, because, according to him, everyone can guess what kind of place is depicted in the picture.

Kevin Sloan

Kevin Sloan is an American artist whose oil painting can be called modern realism. Kevin himself explains it as a reality with a catch.

The artist's paintings will really take you to some other, magical world. The author loves to use symbolism, poetic metaphors and allegories in his paintings, trying to convey the wonders of the natural world and its abundance.

The artist has been painting in oils since high school, and still, 37 years later, it remains his main passion.

Most of all, Kevin loves to draw animals. As he says, they give him more freedom of choice in who and how to draw than in the case of people, and provide an opportunity to better focus on the very story that he lays in the basis of the picture.

Richard Estes

Initially, Estes was interested in traditional academic painting, but then he began to paint in the genre of photorealism, because he always wanted to learn how to display reality on canvas as fully as possible. However, in the artist's paintings, reality appears idealized, along with perfect forms, clear lines and a well-balanced composition.

Estes' favorite subject was urban landscapes, when you see them, you begin to doubt whether you really have a picture in front of you, and not a photograph.

Modern paintings in this genre have become very popular among connoisseurs of 21st century painting.

Oil Painting: Landscapes and Still Lifes

In modern painting, in addition to portraits, genres such as landscape and still life are especially popular. We invite you to pay attention to the following names of contemporary artists performing oil paintings in these genres.

Dmitry Annenkov

Dmitry Annenkov seems to be able to draw any object in such a way that the viewer himself will look at it with different eyes. Not a single detail is hidden from the keen eye of this Russian artist.

He often draws the most simple and banal, everyday and antique objects, endowing each of them with his own unique character - as if a soul appears in them. At the same time, they look so alive and realistic that you want to reach out your hands and get them out of the picture. Dmitry is a real master of such genre of painting as still life.

Now Dmitry is collaborating with various galleries around the world, including those from countries such as the USA, Norway and France.

Justina Digging

A Polish artist who paints pictures with oil that are stunning in their volume and depth, and all thanks to a special original technique.

Despite the sweeping and expressiveness of the works, the seascapes do not lose the transparency of the water and the lightness of the sails, and on the contrary, they attract with their voluminous texture, which you want to feel by touch.

Justina says that the main task of her paintings is to convey atmosphere, not realism, and asks to perceive her oil paintings as fragments of memories.

Despite the fact that a variety of landscapes predominate among her works, she considers people to be her main inspiration.

Xing Yao Tsen

This young Taiwanese artist started painting when he was ten years old. Now he is twenty-nine, and he has his own style, Xing-Yao Tsen's painting is recognizable by major art magazines and reputable art galleries.

The artist most often paints urban landscapes of San Francisco, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree.

He performs his oil works in a unique "floating" manner - some believe that because of this technique, his oil works can be confused with watercolors. Xing-Yao Tsen considers the best time for creating landscapes at sunset and dawn.

Pedro Campos

Another fan of photorealism is Pedro Campos, a Spanish artist from Madrid. This oil painting is easy to confuse with photography, but who would have thought! One way or another, Pedro's paintings lead the audience into indescribable delight.