Supplies for Oil Painting Sunrise

Series Summary

Painting is the art of using a pigmented medium to create a picture of reality filtered through the imagination, the senses, emotions, and life experience. Artists the world over have multiplied the uses of painting as a vital mode of human expression, whether recording history, retelling myth and legend, expressing religious fervor, or exploring the unknown. From early history to the present, we have records of men and women making graphic representations of their world, showing their understanding and their curiosity. In this free video series, our expert artist will show you how to make a painting of a sunrise. Our expert will demonstrate basic painting techniques such as sketching underpainting and color mixing and take you through each step of the creation of an oil painting of a sunrise. Learn how to select which paints you will be using, then how to create the effect you are looking for. Use white to make colors brighter and gray to make them less intense. Watch this series and become a better painter!

Video Transcript

"Hello and welcome to painting a sunrise. Sunrises are one of the most beautiful phenomena's in nature, we see them on a daily basis and every now and again nature puts on a truly brilliant display. Today we're going to be showing you how to convert those brilliant lights over into your art. So the supplies we're going to need today to create out sunrise painting are several starting off with a good pallet knife; these can range from small to large, I prefer more of like the medium variety; I don't like them too small or too big. We're also going to have a small piece of charcoal to do some sketching on our canvas; it's also important to have several round brushes, now round brushes are brushes that are a little round at the edges hence the name and they're really good at applying certain light effects and also cloud wisps. We are also have some smaller brushes like Filberts which are basically a cross between round brushes and square, and flat head brushes and being rounded at the top but at the same time not being overly flat either; they're still kind of narrow on the sides and not perfectly round. And of course we're also going to be having some smaller flat brushes which are also, also good at doing a lot of effects that are different from the round brushes as you're going to see. Going to have some paper towels on hand to make sure to put our brushes on and also to wipe them off, and clean them off so we can keep using them. Going to have some medium as well which we're going to thin out paints and also create cool translucent effects that is especially neat with light."