Day 6: Final Day Of Oil Paint

Day 6: Today I finished up the nebula oil painting by adding the finishing touches to the piece. This included a final layer of light paint and the stars. For the stars I just dipped the back side of the paint brush into the paint and randomly applied dots wherever I found them necessary. sometimes I would also do light and dark red stars and some light blue ones as well so it wouldn't be boring and all white. I also added one defined star in the middle of the nebula. I did this by adding a larger dot and then dragging it out all four directions to give it a flare look. I also added a lot of small dots on the left side of the nebula to make it look like there is a hole through it and to show how endless space really is. I enjoyed playing around with this piece and I now enjoy more abstract art now, which is probably what my next piece is going to be. I didn't really like how the piece looked until I added the stars which shows that even the smallest addition can really change the whole piece.

Final Piece

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Oil Painting Day 5

Day 5: On day five I continued to paint the lines I did on the right side of the nebula. I believe that this adds a range of depth to the piece and makes it look more creative. I used many different colors for the lines to make the color behind the lines more noticeable. After that, I waited for the paint to dry and added a thin cloudy layer of paint over the lines. I think that the piece is coming along well. The most important thing that Ive learned from using oil paint is to always have a rag on you. You first apply paint it is easily manipulated and if you don't like how something looks it makes it easy to change it up. Paint thinner is also very important. Oil paint is much thicker then acrylic paint so to get a thin cloudy paint you will need to use a decent amount of thinner.

Day 5

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