Oils and acrylics
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
■ How to paint effects in oil and acrylics
■ Develop your observational skills
■ Learn from the Old Masters
The American painter, Kevin McPherson, once recalled exhibiting a portrait painting called, Man with a Gold Tooth.
‘A woman at the exhibition asked me: ‘Did you use real gold paint for his tooth? Well I couldn’t let that go by. ‘Of course’, I said. The truth is the painting was done with a palette of only yellow, red, blue and white.’
In situations like this, where the surface texture is more obvious, we can sometimes be left doubting whether the paints we have are up to the job or not. If you think further about it, however, everything we paint has texture of some sort. It’s only when we are faced with what we perceive as the more difficult surfaces, such as water, metal or glass, we tend to overthink our response and run into problems.
One way of avoiding those problems is not to paint things at all, but just paint their shapes instead.
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About Leisure Painter
Welcome to the October issue of Leisure Painter. We have a fantastic array of tutorials and techniques to try in this month's issue, from how to use masking fluid with watercolour and how to fill your sketchbook, to step-by-step demonstrations in water-mixable oils, oils, drawing media, acrylics, watercolour and coloured pencils. Learn how to paint animals in wet-in-wet watercolour, draw a detailed study of a badger with coloured pencils and paint wild animals en plein air. Understand how to paint the effects of aerial perspective and how to paint portraits in miniature. This month we also have great pleasure in publishing the award-winning work from this year's Leisure Painter Open Competition. Enjoy your month of painting.