When you are producing flower landscape oil paintings, keep in mind the short canvas blend life of oil paints. If you are producing an oil painting of a flower landscape and you need to make a change that isn't immediately effective, the best thing to do is wipe it off with your paint rag and start over. This will work for the first 24 hours after your painting, as oil paintings take this long to dry. In fact, it's important not to make too thick a first coat or you'll never get your oil paints to dry.
One important piece of oil painting advice is to clean your paint brushes each time you change colors. You do this by first wiping as much paint off the brush with a rag as you possibly can and then inserting the brush into the paint thinner. Not only will this get more oil paints off your brush, but will extend the life of your thinner as well. Swish your paint brush around in the container of paint thinner, then dry it with your clean paint rag.
When the first layer of your flower landscape oil painting creation is finished, wait 48 hours before you start on your second paint application or you're going to end up smearing the work you already did. In the meantime don't leave your oil painting somewhere hot or humid. Make sure that its location will protect it from getting accidently scraped, smooshed, smeared, or touched at all.
Should you have a lot of paint left on the palette and you want to use it when you start your flower landscape oil paintings again, scrape the paint together with your knife. Next put a small amount of paint thinner on a cleam paint rage and use it to clean the rest of your paint palette. Plastic wrap is great for covering the paint that is leftover. Make sure you wrap it tightly though.
It's important as well, that until you start again with your flower landscape oil paintings, that you replace the lid on the container of paint thinner and set it aside, no matter how cloudy it looks. The paint thinner will settle and the pigment that is part of the paint will drop to the bottom of the container.
Clean thinner will settle at the top. The next time you go back to your flower landscape oil paintings you'll only need to pour that top layer of clean paint thinner into a new and clean thinner container, and wipe the pigment off the bottom. You then pour the good paint thinner back into its original thinner container and you're ready to start your flower landscape oil painting project once again.
How can I find out what my oil paintings are worth?
I do oil paintings, mostly landscapes. I was recently laid off my job and think maybe I should try to sell some of my paintings for profit. How can I find out what they should sell for?
Would you reccomend using canvas cardboard for oil landscape paintings?
I plan on doing oil paintings wet on wet like bob ross paintings. I want to use thin canvas such as the cheap cardboard ones but is there any downside to using canvas on cardboard. I do not want to paint on wood frames because they take up to much space in thickeness. I need to complete 10 oil paintings and it seems easier to stack carboard into my portfolio then woodframes. please tell me the pros and cons of both types of canvas. thanks
I am a painting lover, love making oil paintings it makes me happy and?
I love making seascape, landscape paintings are my favorite. I am so creative person love doing these kind of thinkings, people always tells me you are so creative and you have a good hand why don’t you do something. I want to do painting in my life I born to do this, and want to make a career but I have no degree. so please tell me what should I do .
I want to sell my paintings but I make landscape, seascape and nature oil paintings, these are my favorite,?
but I am wondering is anyone will buy my paintings is like what I produce. becoz this is what I like making and this what I like. can anyone tell me what should I do.
take your paintings around to friends and family and see if they like them, and if you’re feeling confident talk to people with local galleries about displaying some of your work or buy a booth at local art shows and see if you can sell them. :]
I paint also and sell. Just ask a price you concider decent. Concider your time and how much you want for a wage (example $12.00per hr.), also how much resourses you put into it (example $30.00 worth of paint, $20 worth of canvas), and what profit you want to make, like $70 profit.
6 hours to complete @ $12.00 = $72.00
14 x 17 canvas & three tubes of paint = $65.00
Profit =$70.00
Total: $207.00
It is common for beginner artists to sell alittle lower. It insurse your name gets well known. After you sell a few paintings and you find they are selling faster than what you can paint, it means your selling to low. The opisite if your pricing to high, if your not selling much. It is kind of a trial & error thing, you need to “feel” what best soutes you. Of course when you get well known, you can ask alot.
When you start making larger profits you can begin to make prints, artist proofs, and G-clays of your originals so your won’t have to spend so much time on painting originals. Prints are a cash cow and help provide everyday living expenses. Also as you live off profits from prints, you can be painting for shows and exhibitions.
As for galleries, their are consignment galleries that alow you to sell year round in a Gallery. They usually charge 60%/40% split. If your selling to people dirrectly, your price should be lower than the price in the Gallery. You both benifit more if you and the costumer do business directly.
Like you, I also paint and although I’m answering to help you, I’m your competitor. My objective is to paint and market my art better than you.
However, sharing knowledge is also learning. We learn with each other.
To develope one’s skills, there’s study and practice. One also needs to have the work criticized by fellow artists. They will point the strenghts and weaknesses of our works and will help us through our development as artists.
As always, I advise you to take a look at http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums.
There are medium related forums and one they may interest you which is the General Business one (includes Internet sales strategies).
Good luck with your painting and I wish you success.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
How can I find out what my oil paintings are worth?
I do oil paintings, mostly landscapes. I was recently laid off my job and think maybe I should try to sell some of my paintings for profit. How can I find out what they should sell for?
December 8th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Would you reccomend using canvas cardboard for oil landscape paintings?
I plan on doing oil paintings wet on wet like bob ross paintings. I want to use thin canvas such as the cheap cardboard ones but is there any downside to using canvas on cardboard. I do not want to paint on wood frames because they take up to much space in thickeness. I need to complete 10 oil paintings and it seems easier to stack carboard into my portfolio then woodframes. please tell me the pros and cons of both types of canvas. thanks
March 7th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I am a painting lover, love making oil paintings it makes me happy and?
I love making seascape, landscape paintings are my favorite. I am so creative person love doing these kind of thinkings, people always tells me you are so creative and you have a good hand why don’t you do something. I want to do painting in my life I born to do this, and want to make a career but I have no degree. so please tell me what should I do .
April 1st, 2008 at 7:03 am
I want to sell my paintings but I make landscape, seascape and nature oil paintings, these are my favorite,?
but I am wondering is anyone will buy my paintings is like what I produce. becoz this is what I like making and this what I like. can anyone tell me what should I do.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
im looking for any information on landscape oil paintings of the artist only signed fellows 76 on canvas?
painting signed 1976
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Hi,
What about canvas boards ? Not made of cardboard which tends to warp, but made of wood, such as MDF ?
Best regards,
José
http://www.gogofrog.com/hushcolours/
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
i’ve only find 1 artist named fellows (fred) born in 1934. his painting goes up to 10 000$ US in auction.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
take your paintings around to friends and family and see if they like them, and if you’re feeling confident talk to people with local galleries about displaying some of your work or buy a booth at local art shows and see if you can sell them. :]
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I paint also and sell. Just ask a price you concider decent. Concider your time and how much you want for a wage (example $12.00per hr.), also how much resourses you put into it (example $30.00 worth of paint, $20 worth of canvas), and what profit you want to make, like $70 profit.
6 hours to complete @ $12.00 = $72.00
14 x 17 canvas & three tubes of paint = $65.00
Profit =$70.00
Total: $207.00
It is common for beginner artists to sell alittle lower. It insurse your name gets well known. After you sell a few paintings and you find they are selling faster than what you can paint, it means your selling to low. The opisite if your pricing to high, if your not selling much. It is kind of a trial & error thing, you need to “feel” what best soutes you. Of course when you get well known, you can ask alot.
When you start making larger profits you can begin to make prints, artist proofs, and G-clays of your originals so your won’t have to spend so much time on painting originals. Prints are a cash cow and help provide everyday living expenses. Also as you live off profits from prints, you can be painting for shows and exhibitions.
As for galleries, their are consignment galleries that alow you to sell year round in a Gallery. They usually charge 60%/40% split. If your selling to people dirrectly, your price should be lower than the price in the Gallery. You both benifit more if you and the costumer do business directly.
Good Luck
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Hi,
Like you, I also paint and although I’m answering to help you, I’m your competitor. My objective is to paint and market my art better than you.
However, sharing knowledge is also learning. We learn with each other.
To develope one’s skills, there’s study and practice. One also needs to have the work criticized by fellow artists. They will point the strenghts and weaknesses of our works and will help us through our development as artists.
As always, I advise you to take a look at http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums.
There are medium related forums and one they may interest you which is the General Business one (includes Internet sales strategies).
Good luck with your painting and I wish you success.
Kind regards,
Joséhttp://www.hushcolours.com