Introduction to oil painting can be learned from three steps: tool preparation, sketching and oil painting completion. Painting is actually an admirable skill, because to complete a good work, the author not only needs to outline the outline of the picture, but also needs to combine his emotions with the work to complete what he wants. While learning western oil painting, you can also exercise yourself through self-study.

First of all, the tools we prepared. The main materials and tools of oil painting are pigments, turpentine, brushes, knives, canvases, varnishes, picture frames, etc. Therefore, the preparatory work we have to do in the early stage is to buy and arrange the necessary tools for these oil paintings. Of course, the mixing of pigments, the use of painting knives, the frame of canvas and the size of the frame. How to determine the specific conditions of these tools depends on what kind of oil painting we want to create.

The most important point of oil painting: sketch. "Generally speaking, the sketch is just a rough draft, with a few random lines to outline the general shape of the object, and the final effect of the picture is color shaping. For artists who use direct painting, this may be the case with sketches. For artists of classical realistic painting, sketch is very important, and it is the whole of the artist's modeling language. " -Quoted from Baidu Encyclopedia. Therefore, if you want to learn oil painting, sketch is an essential part.

The last step is to draw a sketch on the canvas, pay attention to the details of your sketch and draw it on the canvas, which is one of the key points of our oil painting process. Then according to the characteristics of the whole oil painting, combined with the desired artistic conception, complete the creation of oil painting.