How to Oil Paint on Canvas

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Savago Lome. I'm an artist here in South Florida. Today I'm going to show you how to oil paint on canvas. I'm painting the, my new work and I use the palette knife to clean to it; then I'm use my palette knife and the colors like ivory black with with silk green, blue shade and whisk white color. So you just mix it right, right like this. Then I use the yellow and the ochre. I'm painting the island in the middle of the ocean and on this island the woman's lying like on the beach and she's sunbathing. And this is two mountain is her breast and this mountain is her legs actually and I use this color to make a shade, to make the shadow on this mountain, like this. The palette knife gives you some more options in oil painting; like you can reach a more texture, more picturesque in your knife and reach more shades of the color. Mix the color for the light, for the highlight of the mountain. It's going to be something like this, like more raw sienna and more yellow and make the mountain shapes. I will also going to show you some brush techniques. Use the brush to put the highlight on the mountain, like this. Hold it this way, not like this; this way. So we put the light on the mountain. So we're we just mix the colors. So you see this is going to a pretty mountain shape. And those are a couple of ways on how to oil paint on canvas."