Fundamentals of oil painting

An overview of the Oil painting is a kind of painting with oil pigments on canvas (paper, board). It originated in Europe and is popular all over the world. (There is also a view that oil painting originated in China, and ancient Chinese lacquer painting is also a kind of oil painting, which spread to Europe and promoted the development of European oil painting.) The paintings of ancient and medieval Europe are mainly "glue painting" (mixed with glue), "wax painting" (mixed with wax), "fresh painting" (i.e. fresco), "egg painting" (mixed with eggs and glue). Their expression method and picture effect have been similar to oil painting, oil painting formation and development has an important influence. However, their tool properties and painting methods have many shortcomings, painting is very inconvenient. For example, wax painting to heat the wax, while the painting is hot; Fresh paintings should be painted when the plaster water on the wall is wet; Egg powder painting due to call yolk, color dries too fast. Therefore, ancient painters have been looking for more ideal painting tools and materials. Some people thought of painting with oil. Since the tenth century in Europe, there have been records of painting with oil. But stay in sporadic attempts, can not find the ideal toner. Down to the beginning of the 15th century, the Nordic Renaissance Netherland painters Van Eck brothers (Hubert van Eck 1370 -- 1420, Yang Van Eck 1385 -- 1441), summing up the experience of predecessors, after repeated experiments, finally found the ideal color oil - flaxseed oil, walnut oil. The color that grind attune with them, colour is changeless, lubricious layer is firm, stem not fast not slow, facilitate painting. After the innovations of the Van Eyck brothers (for which they are often referred to as the inventors of oil painting), oil painting began to take shape and soon spread to Italy and other countries, quickly becoming a major type of European painting. For hundreds of years, the tools, materials and techniques of oil painting have been constantly improved and developed, and a large number of famous artists and schools have emerged, forming a magnificent and colorful artistic tradition. Oil painting was introduced into China mainly in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. Due to historical and social reasons, its long-term development was slow. It was after the founding of the People's Republic of China that oil painting gained real attention and development in China. With the development of art education, publishing, exhibition and cultural and art exchanges between China and foreign countries, oil painting, a foreign art form, has gradually become familiar with and loved by the Chinese people. The group of oil painters has also been expanding, and produced large-scale oil paintings such as The Founding Ceremony, The Fall of the Chiang Dynasty and The Father. Oil painting, like Chinese painting, has become one of the main kinds of painting in China. Of course, we should also see that oil painting for China, after all, is a foreign kind of painting, and we need to continue to learn from foreign countries and further explore the Chinese atmosphere and national characteristics of oil painting, so as to make it more popular with the masses. This is an oil sketching basic teaching reference book, is dedicated to learning realistic oil painting beginners to guide the way. It does not involve the creation of oil paintings, nor does it involve various artistic schools. It's a little bit smaller, so it's easier to write. And for beginners with a clear goal, the effect will be better. In recent years, China's oil painting has developed rapidly and is in the period of vigorous development. There are many new problems about the basic teaching of oil painting to be studied. However, sketching is still an irreplaceable basic course for cultivating and training students' quality. In order to avoid the sketch may be produced in overly dependent objects, the disadvantage of students' creativity, the book in the relevant sections in this paper, and arrange the appropriate practice to exert students' artistic imagination and creation spirit, actively want attention in reading and sketching practice, careful body difficult and cites some of the principles, flexible to use. To develop a true painter, basic training and oil painting should not be seen as separate things. Good sketches can also be a true work of art. The most important thing is not to equate oil painting with imitating nature, it permeates the painter's aesthetic interest and spirituality from the bottom of my heart from beginning to end. Without this, oil painting can only be a shell of nature, which would be fatal to a student or a painter. Fundamentals of oil painting For a young man who has made up his mind to study oil painting, I believe this book will be useful. It will systematically introduce the basic rational methods of oil painting. The exercises arranged in the book can help aspirants to achieve their goals in a step-by-step manner. Oil painting is a relatively difficult to master the kind of painting, before painting oil painting to carry out a period of sketch training. In professional art schools, it is common to start with plaster models and then draw real heads. This kind of sketch sketch ability training is of great benefit to improve students' modeling ability and aesthetic taste. After students basically master the skills of drawing plaster or head, they can enter the stage of oil painting. While learning oil painting, they still need to constantly increase the difficulty of sketch training, from painting head to painting bust and full body. In the academy of fine arts schools are equipped with human body classes, these courses and oil painting class progress cross link each other. Experience has proved that sketch training is the foundation of learning oil painting. All comrades who study oil painting must have a certain basis for sketching. Those who have not learned sketch should learn to sketch first. Do not be in a hurry to draw oil painting