Suggestions for Oil Painting
To achieve a high degree of creative painting in oils permanently put a large mirror behind your workstation. Make sure you give yourself enough room to move between your working station and the mirror.
Start your picture by painting the idea on a canvas. I prefer to put it together with oil or acrylic, and diluted yellow ochre paint.
Stand back and look at your work in the mirror.
![creative painting in oils](http://creativepaintings.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/MiketheCat.jpg)
This way you will see and be able to correct the weak spots. You could also look at the canvas turned upside down. At this stage, I normally put it on another easel in the kitchen up high so that my cat, Michael, cannot paint it over with his tail. Then I stare at it for a few days. Michael sometimes stares at it too, though I am not sure if he is looking at it or something else.
When satisfied, paint.
Creative Painting in Oils: How Paintings Change
Most of my paintings change in the process of creation. For example, “Let’s fly a Kite” began with a model sitting on a stool, leaning on a stick. I let him sit on a wine keg holding a kite. At all times use your imagination.
![creative painting in oils](http://creativepaintings.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/01Abundance200.jpg)
“Abundance “is a smaller version as painted in “Spring has Sprung”. So is “Floral Study.”
![creative painting in oils](http://creativepaintings.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/orangeTeapot200a19.jpg)
In “The Orange Teapot”, before starting, I painted the whole of the canvas in orange and yellow orange acrylic,
I often paint a canvas because I like the shapes, e.g. a teapot, a red jug and a big tree.
![creative painting in oils](http://creativepaintings.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Lemons200a14.jpg)
I paint “Lemons” and then painted over it with oil color pastel (crayons). Then, I wet the pastel with turpentine in order to get the color nuances in the plate.
![creative painting in oils](http://creativepaintings.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BlueVaseSunFlowers200.jpg)
“Sunflowers” was created from a still-life set-up, using heavy oil paint and applied with a palette knife.
“Sophistication” was painted from a model. I put in the background by applying fairly heavy oil paint in large pats. Bearing in mind how and where I wanted the colors, and using an old piece of toweling
wrapped around my finger, I softly blended the colors and formed a cohesive background. This is how creative painting in oils is employed.
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applied by knife
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