Oil painting.

When creating a detailed oil painting it is important to plan it out properly for reasons such as; it makes it easier, you have to give time as oil takes a while to dry, it will save unnecessary work, it will help cut down on mistakes and the correct layering will add depth. Creating a ground is the first step to the painting, this helps cut out a lot of work as it gives you an all over mid tone to work from, it will also help bring all the colours together. With oil paintings you have to work from dark to light and pure whites are saved until last so they stand out. I had to create an oil painting from observation.

This shows my piece with the ground of green painted on, also the branch and the darkest areas of shade on the squirrel.

This is my piece when I had added the rest of the tone and detail. As you can see the colours blend together quite well to create shading and it also gives the piece texture. I am happy with the overall outcome of my piece however I believe I could have blended in the lighter areas more.