Blocking Light Colors for Oil Painting

Video Transcript

"Hello, I am Stevie Moore. Welcome to my studio here at the Artist Attic here in Lexington, Kentucky. Alright, we have a blank canvas. We have got nothing on it. What I am going to do right now is take my large square brush; I am going to load it up with some of my liquin. It is going to be thinner than actually speed drying time and help me apply this paint in a more liquid and loose way. As you can see it is just plain liquin. It is pretty clear. And you can see how it is just kind of going over my graphite strokes. That is alright because all this stuff is going to get covered up by the under painting. What I want to do is start with some of my light tones which I have in here on this hillside where the light is hitting it. I prefer to work light to dark. I am going to mix in some of my white and some yellow, a little bit of burnt sienna and I am trying to get kind of a warm stone base coat on here. Always layer up more paint on top of this. I am trying to just cover this area of the hillside with a very thin coat of paint and liquin which I hope to have drying by tomorrow. And don't be afraid to mix. You can mix your colors on the palate or if you prefer you can mix them right on the canvas at this stage because all of this is going to be getting a lot of mixing before the day is done and any other areas that have this type of color. And put a little bit on the tree. Anywhere you see any of the brown-tan type of color I am going to go in and apply this coat. And it will get more complex later. I am just trying to cover the painting with paint. Right now I am mainly using some Naples yellow, some white, and a little bit of raw sienna. That is pretty much the only colors that I am using. The gray you might see on here is coming from my graphite. And that is something you are going to have happen. One thing you can do, you can use a spray fix on your graphite. You spray it right on there, the type of thing you would use on a drawing. And that will affix your graphite strokes a little bit better on there. But this is all going to be covered up later anyway so I am not terribly concerned in the painting. If that gray bothers you, you do not have to have it. Here we have got one of our, some finally white highlights here. Apply a little bit thicker amount of paint on this hillside. And we are done with that segment."