What is a fast way to work with Oil paints?

Answer 1

You can try painting 'Alla Prima'.

Alla Prima is: "A style of painting where, instead of building colours up with layers, the painting is done in one session while the paint is still wet. From the Italian word which literally means at once." *

I've painted this way on several occasions. I truly enjoy working wet-on-wet. When working this way you can get wonderful stroke effects and color blending. Also, with Alla Prima, you can coat your surface with a wet layer before beginning your painting; but I find that working wet paint into to wet paint, on a dry surface, is just as creatively productive. However, if you wish to paint with precise details, you might prefer the layer on dry layer method. Or, put another way, if what you want to create is a marvelously textured, soft-edged, dreamy affect, then the Alla Prima method might be for you. If you want to create something akin to Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage, then careful layering over dry layers is what you're after.

Answer 2

There is no fast way to work with oils but planning out your painting before you actually start sure helps. The fastest oil painting i have painted took me approximately nine hours total (wet on wet). I am a selftaught artist if you wish to check out the kind of work i do, go to hellosanantonio.com and look for the local artist name Guerro and see if you can guess which painting it was. Art is like learning a new language, the more you practice the better and faster you become, to the point where the process of painting just seems to flow naturally.

Answer 3

Oil painting needs A LOT of layering, so the fast way is to not layer it. Paint your canvas with liquid white, and when it is still moist, start painting, and avoid mistakes. Start from the background and work forward to the foreground just like you do with normal oil painting that you layer. well, you can watch how Bob Ross paint (on youtube.com), he paints everything in like 30 minutes, that might help a lot.

Answer 4

It's very difficult to work quickly with oils--and really, why would you want to? Working quickly in a medium that is supposed to take time and patience will only lead, in my opinion, to shoddy work.

Nevertheless, no matter how fast you apply the paint, it will still take several days to dry before you can put on the next layer.

Answer 5

have just started painting again for the first time in years..and always have used oils..don't understand this layering stuff I've read here..but you can treat oils almost like watercolors using a lot of linseed oil..or like acrylics by using them right out of the tube...and all the different ways in between...with brushes, palette knives...even your fingers..although the clean up can be tough..(easier w/Dawn)...get a canvas and just play with the color and textures you can make with your brushes...paint what you "see" inside...and enjoy..

Answer 6

Check ot Bob Ross who is famous for "Happy Trees."