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Oil Painting study how to Create a Spectacular Landscape!

If you're oil painting landscapes art, you find will inspiration in a beautiful landscape

There's something about a breathtaking landscape that motivates the artist in all of us to capture its essence on canvas. Speaking for myself, I always want to create a piece that reflects my level of emotion, and I want all future viewers of the painting to feel the transference of these same feelings.

Since you are reading this article, I assume that you feel as I do. So, in order to help everyone create some beautiful pieces, I've listed some ideas to help with your next project.

Oil Painting Landscapes IdeaUse Your Imagination.

It's permissible to rearrange the elements in the landscape, if you think it'll make a better painting composition. Another option is to borrow elements from different landscapes and put them together in one piece. (Of course you shouldn't do this if your landscape is a readily identifiable scene)

Oil Painting Landscapes IdeaIt's OK To Leave Some Elements Out.

No one is forcing you to include everything that you see in the landscape you're painting. Please feel free to be selective. You should include the elements that you feel are important, and that characterize this particular landscape. And you should definitely use the landscape as a reference, but its also OK to insert your own personality, temperament tastes in the painting. After all, It's your work of art. You should paint it anyway you wish Oil Painting LandscapesIt's Not Cheating to Buy Green Paints

There is this notion in the oil painting world that a true artist has to mix their own greens. Hogwash! It's permissible to buy green paints in a tube rather than mixing your own. One of the main benefits of doing so is that you'll have instant access to particular greens. By the same token, don't limit yourself to only store-bought greens. Go ahead and extend the range of 'ready-made' greens as your inspiration leads you. When mixing a green, bear in mind that green has either a blue or a yellow bias as the starting point. In addition, remember that the shade of green in a landscape will change depending on the time of day. It's a fact that a bluish green hue in the morning may well be a yellowish green by dinner time.

Each different blue/yellow combination will give a different green, plus the variations from the proportions of each you mix. With practice it becomes instinctive to mix the shade of green you're after.

Oil Painting Landscapes The Foreground Is Top Priority

Don't paint the entire landscape with the same degree of detail. It's important to paint less detail in the background of the landscape than you do in the foreground. It's less vital there and gives more 'authority' to the foreground. The difference in detail also helps draw the viewer's eye into the main focus of the landscape painting.

Oil Painting Landscape Consider Creating A Series

OK, you've followed these guidelines religiously, and you now have a masterpiece hanging on the wall. What do you do next My advice is to paint another one. Be like the Impressionist Claude Monet and paint it again and again, in different lights, seasons, and moods. You may think you'll get bored with the scene, but in reality you start to see more in it. The difference may be the way a tree's shadow tracks around it through the day Or possibly it's how the different light of the harsh midday sun changes the feel of the painting.

It was Picasso that put put it best: "Painting is a blind man's profession" He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen". So if you follow these guidelines, and let your inspiration guide you, then I'm confident you'll create better works of art

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i have oil painting of fruit basket.made during the great depression.how much is it worth?

painted on some some sort of wood or broad.its a basket of fuit and flowers on the ground next ti a tree.a women kneeling by a creek next to a home in the backround.

There's absolutely no way to tell without more information. It depends on the artist, the condition of the painting, and its quality. Unless the artist is well known, it's probably not worth much. From your description, it sounds like sentimental decorative "art."