When trying new techniques I tend to gravitate towards smaller pieces for the easy win. Play out in your mind what you are going to do in your painting process to figure out what tools and colors you will need.įor this painting, I decided to go with a small 5″ x 7″ canvas since this project poses a few additional challenges I’ve never tried before. When you go to gather your supplies, ask yourself how you can approach this in the best way that you can get the results you want. There is so much art out there just try to find examples of things that appeal to you. Pretty much every subject matter has some variation in the ways we can choose to create it. In this case, I created this skyline painting board where I collected both paintings of cityscapes and pictures.Īs we browse around at what other artists have done we may see a number of style variations to choose from.
I generally start by going to my Pinterest account and creating boards on the subject I’m seeking to paint. The first step of my painting process, once I decide what I want to paint of course, is to gather up some references. Hopefully, at the very least, you are inspired to experiment and find your own way.
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I want to show you how to paint something you’ve never painted before from beginning to end so that you might be able to use that approach yourself. Perhaps that is something to consider if you’re following me along in these steps but using your own references.Īnother thing I am trying to change in my step by steps is giving you a more complete look at my process so you can understand better how to create your own original works. I figure I should build up the number of references I use as I get better at drawing elements out of each reference. Instead, this time I’m going to try to draw inspiration from just two different references to see how that goes. While the painting was successful, I personally don’t feel like I used all 4 references to the best of my ability.
First off, I tried to use 4 different reference pictures instead of just one. In the last step by step we did, How To Paint a Campfire, I tried to change up the way I was doing things in a few different ways. As you’re about to see though, there are a number of challenges it poses for me too. This particular project is slightly more challenging than most of my step by steps due to the textured nature of the results we are trying to get. Let’s work through figuring it out together! While I have done quite a few types of sunset paintings where the main subject is cast in a silhouette, a city is one I have yet to try. There’s nothing quite like the twinkle of a city descending into darkness as the setting sun makes the sky glow in the background.