Sketch for Oil Painting Sunrise

Video Transcript

"The next step is starting to sketch on our canvas. What we're going to do is we're going to take the photograph that we have selected for inspiration today, and we're going to tack this up here, on the top of our easel, set for the nice push pin up here. And now once this photograph is up here, we're going to start to sketch on our canvas. Now, what you may be asking is, well, they're really are no actual objects, you're just some clouds, maybe the mountains I can sketch in, why should I sketch anything else in? What you want to be sketching in here, is the border of colors, to kind of give yourself a guide, as you're going to be putting in some of these pigments on the canvas. So, we're going to start off up here at the top, where some of that light pink. We're just going to very lightly trace in some of these main, some of these main color bands, and areas, to kind of get some of that shape down. And literally someone is even just only putting in a little line of where some of these colors are going. And things flying out down here towards the bottom. And then of course, the easier part, we have our mountains sticking up over here. Just going to trace these down across the bottom. Now I'm not making these lines very dark. They don't have to be. In fact, you don't want them to be too dark. I even like to blow a bit to get some of those charcoal fragments off of my canvas. Because now we're going to be painting over this and we don't want the charcoal to muddy it. At the same time, though, after you're done painting, the charcoal will not show through, like some other things, like pencil will."