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In this essay, I am going to give a brief synopsis on what I learnt about art on the 18th of November. The lesson was led by Aunty Margaret's son, Dominic.

 

The session started with a brief introduction to art. The reason a lot of art has changed through the years is down the influences of the period of time that they were painted. For example, the influence of the political times upon the painting is not to be under-estimated.

 

However, art is most influenced by the popularity of different mediums at the time. Mediums are the different types of paints and ink that are used to express a painting in different ways. The differences between soft paints such as oil paints, and quick-drying “harder” paints such as gouache, cannot be understated, with the use of both creating an incredibly large amount of differences in regards to looks.

 

In addition, the current era of art, post-modernism, has had a large effect on current art. With the new era of art and the impact of movements such as surrealism, the concept of painting from imagination rather than sight has grown much more popular.

 

One of the most important things in art is preparation before a painting. When painting with oil paints, in particular, it was a requirement for there to be a suitable amount of preparation before starting. For example, it is necessary to have the correct base. If you decide to paint oil paints onto paper, the paint will seep through and blur and will have a spoilt texture. A prime-stretched canvas is the perfect material. Other useful assets when painting are an easel and a daylight lamp, which is used to shine colours upon it, to make more natural colours show in painting.

 

Furthermore, there is the necessity of getting the paint right itself. There are ways to perfect an oil painting such as using a wash, and using charcoal as a base to the painting to set up the right background for the paint to settle well. On top of this, another useful technique artists use when painting is something known as “gridding up”. “Gridding up”, as suggested by the terms, grids up the canvas into squares to give a sense of direction in the painting. This is a particularly useful technique when drawing from original pictures. Taking a photo of something, then gridding up it, before using the same-sized grid to size up your painting makes a detailed and precise painting. This helps support the structure of the painting. When the shapes are right And even after finishing the basic set-up, oil paints require the correct dilution for them to be able to be used when painting. After dilution, oil paints are normally mixed together too, and that requires gels such as linseed oil and liquin to give different feels to mixing elements together. Liquin is known for drying faster, which helps mix the elements quicker, but in a less natural way. All in all, preparation before painting is crucial.

 

After preparation is completed, the task of getting ready to paint is next. Of course, painting requires more than just preparation. When painting with oil paints on canvas, it is often hard for you to rest your hand without touching the painting. A tool that can help solve this problem is called a milestick. A milestick is a very useful tool which you balance your hand upon to help stop smudging a painting.

 

Just before painting begins, it is most important to think first of what medium and what brush should be used. Firstly, and most importantly, it is a key part of the painting to choose your medium. The differences between something like oil paints, to pastels, all the way to watercolours, are not to be under-rated at the different sizes of painting and different textures to use for painting require different brushes. In taking in mind the medium, it is also similarly important to take in mind the different brushes. Large paintings often need a brush which can “slap” on the paint to spread it about quicker, while smaller paintings need more intricate detail, which would work better with a sable brush.

 

Despite all the preparation, set-up, and getting the medium and the brush right, the actual painting is definitely the most challenging part of the proccess. Without any skill or any right methods, the preparation would go to waste.

 

In vague terms, there are two main arenas of painting that artists generally follow when starting their painting. These are painting from sight, and painting from imagination. Painting from sight was the most popular technique for a long time in the history of art. Famous artists such as Monet and Da Vinci were painters who painted from sight. However, as I mentioned formerly in this report, the rise of surrealism has largely brought up the idea of painting through imagination.

 

Although painting with oil paints may create the best paintings, there are often reasons to paint with other mediums. For example, people who paint for newspapers or magazines, and have a time limit on their works demand for a medium that dries much quicker than oil paints. Likewise, in our lesson, we were unable to paint with oil paints due to lack of time, so we used a different medium – a pen.

 

While pens are very popular in the writing industry, using pens for art is a technique that demands skill. Since pens cannot be erased, each blot of ink stays on the paper, which forces the artist to make no mistakes. There is another key difference with pens that makes it harder to use than lot of other mediums, like pencil. That difference is the use of shading.

 

Undoubtedly, shading with pencil comes naturally and is very simple, yet with pens, it is not simply a matter of pressing harder on the paper. To get a strong shading difference which looks good on paper demands the use of a method known as crosshatching. Crosshatching uses the idea of crossing lines multiple times to create a darker shade in different parts of the drawing. This is a very useful technique to learn, particularly when drawing with pen.

 

In conclusion, what I learnt in the lesson was that art uses an incredible variety of skills. However, it 

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