WORKS AT HOME -oil paintings-

A COPY OF VAN GOGH'S STARRY NIGHT. WORK IN PROGRESS
this is my third try at oil painting. it was really hard to get the 'visible brushstroke' look with a brush... so i used a palatte knife instead!!!! and it worked quite well~~ It was easier to apply a thich layer of paint using a palette knife instead. it took a few days to complete it and there was really a very thick layer of paint on the canvas. i would say this was quite sucessful as i learnt a new technique of oil painting and this was a sucessful experiment. I really love vangogh's starry night and i will do more copies of his works. I do think that it can be of a bigger scale (though it will require a lot of paint!!!!) and i can maybe play around with the colours like making the whlole painting using warm colours instead and see if the atmosphere of the whole painting would change and how it will turn out. I can also use this style to paint another subject matter for a change.
And this is the completed work!!!:

-OIL PAINTING N.O2-

work in progress:

I watched a few tutorials on youtube on how to paint trees using oil paint and i decided to try this technique in my next painting. I used a fan brush to create this texture that was like leaves. I was not familiar with the technique and the paint kind of mixed together and turned into a ugly brown color!!!! D: so i set it to dry so that i can apply a fresh layer on it and suprisingly the texture created by the first layer became a wonderful base for my second layer!!! so i 'skillfully' (>:D) applied a new layer of fresh colours and this was how it turned out!!! i didnt really like the cluster on the right hand side because the edges did not turn out very natural so that is a point for improvement. and after that i filled in the bottom, painting a water body~~ that turned out fine. but i really hated the fact that i drew the floating branches/wood in it. and since i was of a darker color, i could not remove it so i just decided to go with it and tried my best to make it look nicer. However the scale of it could've been bigger. I really liked how the water turned out~~ it looks quite 'watery' to me~ <3
and the reflection turned out quite fine~ though i could have watched a few tutorials online for better ideas for how to do that. this paining is overall not that sucessful as i think the technique was not done quite as well and that the sky could have been painted better and that would really give it a wonderful atmosphere~
i shall explore paintint trees more in the future!!!

DONE!! <3


-OIL PAINTING N.O 1-

WORK IN PROGRESS

This is the background for my first oil painting. I really like the warm and fresh feel of the sillhouette of trees in the afica fields!!! I think it gives out a great atmosphere where the light shines throught the darkness from the faraway horizone.
I also wanted to try out this technique i've seen on Youtube on how to paint trees using a fan brush. i have also taken some reference online as to how trees in africa usually look like where they are very tall and thin, with leaves fanning out like an umbrella at the top. also i tried using materials like linseed oil to make the background smoother but i found out that I really dont like that way of doing it. I'd rather paint a thicker layer as the linseed oil dilutes the paint and it takes away the rich thick colour that the paint has. Hence i will not use linseed oil in my paintings unless i want to achieve that effect.

DONE~

the trees are painted in and i like the painting where it is my first oil painting but i think i could have worked on the composition of the whole painting. i think the trees could have been smaller and that would give a very nice ratio of the sky as to the trees. it would make the painting feel more spacious and create this vast warm sky feel. ^^~