| Painting wildlife and animals in oils can seem like a | | | | developments with oil paint manufacture means |
| very daunting prospect for beginners and novice | | | | that they can now dry over night - these are |
| painters, but it needn't be. When you follow a few | | | | called Alkyd Oil paints and odorless thinners means |
| simple rules and procedures. | | | | that you don't have to stink the whole house out |
| Oils the most forgiving medium Beginners often | | | | with the smell of turps, so there is no reason |
| perceive oil painting as a difficult medium, but | | | | why a beginners 1st painting should not be done |
| actually it is one of the most forgiving. Over the | | | | using oil / Alkyd paints. Wildlife Art Secrets (what |
| years I have used just about everything, but | | | | I learnt in 10 years) Wildlife / Animal painting is |
| always come back to oils. I find Acrylics just dry | | | | very popular - lots of people would love to be |
| too fast, and you need many layers to get the | | | | able to paint their pet, or perhaps they had a |
| coverage of oils. Watercolor is all about timing, put | | | | special holiday in Africa and would love to paint |
| a wet color in to another wet color at the wrong | | | | their memories, but beginners can be disappointed |
| time and you can have all manner of terrible | | | | with their 1st attempts at capturing animals. I |
| things happen such as run backs, bleeds etc. | | | | know I was when I started to paint wildlife about |
| I have found watercolor to be by far the most | | | | 10 years ago - I read just about every book on |
| difficult medium to master - particularly for | | | | the subject and watched lots of video footage as |
| beginners. Oils on the other hand give me enough | | | | well, but they all seemed to have one thing in |
| time to relax as I think out the next stage and | | | | common - they left out the detailed instruction |
| plenty of time if I want to blend one color in to | | | | and jumped too many steps, it was quite |
| another, when creating a nice smooth sky colour | | | | frustrating. |
| for instance. The New Oil Paints Also new | | | | |