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i like to paint in oils or acrylics. i just started, is there any one who can give me some tips?
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use big brushes. painting is about color. if you cant draw, you cant paint. what you do on the pallete is more important than what you do on the canvas. dont get attached to your paintings. they will all be bad for a long time. then you will get good if you practice a lot.
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Troll Doll
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I took a drawing class before doing any painting at all. I do watercolors, and used to do oils a looong time ago. The drawing class definitely helped, and in fact I took two semesters of it. 
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stofo said:
I do oil painting... I also can't agree with you on that, I for one, can hardly draw at all lol. but painting is a snap! And its great i get to express myself with wonderful colors. The secret is using the bob ross method... yea poor guy looks like he needs a comb lol but his method is awesome. get a begginer's set and just check it out. yes being able to draw and knowing about perspective and all helps but its not nessisary. God bless you in your endeavor!
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bob ross is not an artist, he applies the paint like a robot. he only knows one formula for applying paint and it is a bad one. his paintings look shallow. any art professor or art critic would agree with me. even bob ross draws everything before he paints it, you dont see that on tv.
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Hi, I have to agree with stofo on the Bob Ross thing. If your not ready to take a class try going to your local library and taking out a bunch of books. It might be more convenient to start with acrylics because they clean up easily and dry quickly so your colors won't get muddy. I also agree that good painting needs good drawing unless you plan on going abstract but even the best abstract artists learned the basic skills to draw in school. I went to school for fine art (painting major) and now teach art classes for children. Even if you plan on painting just for fun it will pay to learn the traditional basics. Stay away from Bob Ross or any of the one stroke painting techniques, sorry if I sound like a snob but they are just not considered legit in the fine art community. I wish you the very best in your new quest! 
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fruitrach
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I guess it depends why you want to paint, what sort of thing you want to do and what you think might happen to your work when it's finished.
If you want to paint for display in galleries and/or sale then you need to learn good techniques and composition styles so get some books out of the library or join a course.
If you just want to paint for enjoyment, you just do whatever feels good for you - it doesn't matter what the critics would say or what technique you use. If you enjoy it, that's fine. And with acrylics, you can always paint over it again!
I paint abstracts for worship. My three favourites so far are a picture based on a vision God gave a friend and I of light shining over three blocks of flats in a local housing estate and two abstracts I've done based on verses from Psalm 8. The flats picture is in my friends house, the first psalm 8 hangs in our lounge and the other I gave to a friend as a birthday present and its in his hallway. I've never had an art lesson or read a book in my life - I just paint.
If you want to paint for display in galleries and/or sale then you need to learn good techniques and composition styles so get some books out of the library or join a course.
If you just want to paint for enjoyment, you just do whatever feels good for you - it doesn't matter what the critics would say or what technique you use. If you enjoy it, that's fine. And with acrylics, you can always paint over it again!
I paint abstracts for worship. My three favourites so far are a picture based on a vision God gave a friend and I of light shining over three blocks of flats in a local housing estate and two abstracts I've done based on verses from Psalm 8. The flats picture is in my friends house, the first psalm 8 hangs in our lounge and the other I gave to a friend as a birthday present and its in his hallway. I've never had an art lesson or read a book in my life - I just paint.
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i personally like the bob ross method myself, buy before i get critisism about that let me tell you another technique i would use. instead of using a canvas background try to spice things up by using a mirror for a canvas that way the reflection will really show off the paintings bob ross does you know with the mountines and so forth, try it you might like it.
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