Oil painting

In this session on the 5/11/14 I had to use oil paints to paint a cloth draped over a pot on a table.  I firstly had to paint the whole of my paper with a mix of tan and brown oil paints thinned down with white spirit.  I then had to draw the prop using the oil paints and my paintbrush. The materials is used I this session were tan, brown, navy blue and white oil paints, white spirit to clean my brush and thin the oil paints, a medium sized hog hair paint brush, an A1 sheet of paper and a piece of torn cloth for wiping my brush on and using to erase any mistakes I made.  The techniques I used were extended reach to get the proportions accurate, shading, painting, perspective, scale and tone.  The areas of my work I think worked well are the shading and tonal work.  To extend my skills I will research oil paintings and the different techniques using oil paints.  

Research 

I have researched other artists oil painting, and below are a few I liked on Google images.

I really like the colours and style that the artist has used in this painting. I love how they have made the kettle appear old and slightly rusty, the eggs look like they have a satin finish and the table look shinny  in arrears.  I think that the artist has done an amazing job with this painting and I hope to be able to achieve this quality of work within my paintings by the end of my course,  

I chose this painting as I like how the person is using their finger as a tool to help blend in.  I think that this is a good technique and I will definitely be using this technique when using oil paints.  However, I am not too keen on the painting itself, I really like the colours that have been used but I don't like the rough style they have chose to paint in.  I don't think that I would use this style within my own work. 

I like how simple this painting is and how the grey background makes the flowers stand out more.  I think the shades and tones used work really well and look effectiveand I like how you can see that the paint has been put on thickly on the flowers only adding texture to them.  I would like to use this style and technique within my work.  

This painting appealed to me as you can clearly see that the artist has used thick brush strokes and all the different colours used can be seen.  I like how they haven't tried to blend the colours in, but instead  they have used quite bold colours against each other. 

The bright colours used made this painting stand out to me.  I really like how the artist has made the painting feel warm, inviting and relaxing by using warm colours for the sunset and the cool colours in the sky.  I also like how they have painted the sea in warm yellow, read and orange tones to reflect the sunset.