Oil Painting For The Beginner - Demo Painting

In this beginner oil painting course (oil painting project demo) you will learn to paint a simple oil landscape using just a few colours and tools.

I would recommend watching the whole oil painting demo all the way through before painting the painting itself. This way you'll have a great understanding as to what you need to prepare for before starting to put paint on the canvas.

This painting was done wet on wet. Meaning: the painting did not have the chance to dry before the next layers were applied.

Here is the supply list for this oil painting class:

• • Shop towels*

  • 10" x 20" gessoed** canvas (I gesso my canvas with two to three coats, making sure that previous coat dries before applying the next one)

  • Paint palette (or anything with a hard nonporous surface)

  • Paint thinner or gamsol (to clean your brushes and palette)

  • Clear gel medium (to mix the white medium)

• • Brushes:

    • 1-inch brush

    • Fan Brush

  • Flat palate knife

• • Paint colours (I use Gamblin 1980s series):

• • • Ultramarine blue (or any blue)

    • Ivory black (or any black)

    • Sap green (I really love the intensity of sap green, but other greens are fine too)

    • Alizarin crimson (or any red)

    • Cadmium yellow light (or any yellow)

    • Titanium white

*Shop towels are way better than regular paper towels as they leave no residue or paper towel shavings when wiping the canvas.

**Gesso is an acrylic paint base. It can be thin or thick. In this case I'm using it to prime my canvas, so it needs to be thicker (so I don't have to prime it with more than two or three coats.)

Let's Paint!