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A pack of 10 Grayscale Pastels or Conté pencils are cheap.
2.- Trace and copy
3.- innovate
4.- Then go with Acrylics: it dries fast, works with water, and it's cheap.
brushes: Get about five different ones, don't invest a lot of money in them.
5.- Learn color mixing
6.- Trace and copy
7.- Innovate
Bob Ross. That is all. https://www.netflix.com/title/80097532
- small brush, medium brush
- cheap easel
- value pack of small (8"x10" or so) canvases
- one of those "cheap" acrylic paint sets that includes white, black, red, yellow, and blue paint.
1. After buying your supplies, find images of paintings that you like.
2. Copy them.
3. Repeat the first two steps for awhile.
4. Set up a bunch of inanimate objects, and paint those from life.
5. Repeat step four for awhile.
Also, DO NOT COMPARE YOUR WORK TO OTHERS'. Compare your work to your own previous work. You will only be perpetually angry or disappointed in your own work otherwise.
Source: I'm an artist.
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I know a lot of people who have just painted along with Bob Ross. Maybe that's an option?
I know a lot of people who have just painted along with Bob Ross. Maybe that's an option?
Water color can also be instant gratification, but you can't really paint over mistakes, unlike oils (if you wait for them to dry).
Looking online, people's early Ross-clone works are not so hot, but practice makes perfect. I would suggest picking one segment of a scene, such as part of mountain, and keep trying until you perfect it.
Take a break from the sub-scene for a few days so that you revisit it with a fresh viewpoint. Maybe rotate sub-scenes to rework. Staring at the same thing too long in one sitting can dampen one's objectivity, I've found. This applies to writing also.
Keep in mind that Ross used to crank out such paintings for Alaskan tourist shops en masse. He has the experience of many thousands of paintings, making it look easier than it is. I'm sure his first dozen were clunkers or took a while.
Second - Painting is a process and understanding technique is all about having a relationship between you and your faculties in conjunction with the unique materials and their inherent processes. Whatever you choose to paint with, oil, acrylic, water color, guache, digital, they all have their limits and their sublime qualities, embrace these limitations and qualities as their strength. Get to know the history of pigments for example to develop a deeper appreciation for this kind of stuff.
Of course drawing skills are essential but beyond a faculty in rendering the work of learning to draw is a serious head-trip. Sure it is about developing muscle groups. The eye to see, the arm and hand to capture, but it is equally if not more-so a battle of overcoming the chatter and false images your mind possess and overlays that are not matching what your eyes are seeing in the world and on the canvas. It is about overcoming your own ego because it will lie to you, make you lazy, invest emotion into a mark on the page and make you frustrated and tell you you are not good enough or you are better than any actually constructive criticism. The wepon against all these things is clearing the page and starting over, clearing your mind and looking again, and closer.
It is lazy and far slower to depend purely on yourself, find other people you can learn from take what you can from their experience and repeat.
I know a lot of people who have just painted along with Bob Ross. Maybe that's an option?
Ross's approach is probably closest to instant gratification: the scenes are intentionally designed to be easy, quick, and striking. Water color can also be instant gratification, but you can't really paint over mistakes, unlike oils (if you wait for them to dry). Looking online, people's early Ross-clone works are not so hot, but practice makes perfect. I would suggest picking one segment of a scene, such as part of…