Oil Painting: Create Surreal Landscapes
Preparing the Canvas
A course by Paul Neberra , Artist
About the video: Preparing the Canvas
Overview
“Before you start your final project, you will prepare your canvas by priming it with gesso. This is a very important task before starting any painting because oils can deteriorate the canvas in time. You will also learn how to tint the canvas with Burnt Sienna after the gesso is dry.”
In this video lesson Paul Neberra addresses the topic: Preparing the Canvas, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oil Painting: Create Surreal Landscapes. Learn to use oil paints to create a unique landscape, combining both realism and symbolism..
Partial transcription of the video
“Preparing the Canvas Before you start painting, you have to prepare your canvas. In this lesson, I'll show you how to prime a canvas. To start with, I'll need a little amount of water. Just a bit. Then, I'll use gesso. You can buy this kind of acrylic gesso in any art store. You will need a large brush. This is a number 50. You have to mix the gesso with water. You will know that you achieved the right consistency when the gesso drops gently, like this. Not too thin or too thick. You then apply it in one motion. As you can see, this canvas already has some gesso. You can buy it like this bu...”
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Course summary for: Oil Painting: Create Surreal Landscapes
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Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting
Paul Neberra
A course by Paul Neberra
Paul Neberra is a self-taught artist from Portugal. After graduating with a degree in graphic design he began his career working as an illustrator, designer and then as a teacher of graphics-related software.
Surrealism has been a passion of Paul’s since he was a child and once he discovered Pop Surrealism everything fell into place. In 2013 he began pursuing his artistic career. Since then his work has been used on products such as beer cans for French brewery La Débauche, and featured in several magazines including on the cover of Heavy Metal magazine, in Catapult, and Beautiful Bizarre.
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