Oil Painting | Composition | Palette Knife| Smoky Mtn River

This video includes opinions about composition, design and how I approached creating this oil painting. The subject is a river in Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. During the process I offer dialogue about my thoughts on composition and how I'm progressing. Time lapse captures most of the brushwork and palette knife strokes on this 18x24" canvas. Oil painting uses paints that include pigment and a binder, mostly linseed oil. Oil paints can be applied using a variety of brushes and palette knives. Drying time for oil paints can vary from 1 day to 1 week depending on the use of mediums and thickness of paint. Developing the composition of a painting is critical to success no matter what the medium; acrylics, watercolor, pastel or just drawing. When using photo references it becomes easy to just paint what is in the composed photo. Artists have the liberty to improve the composition through a variety of art techniques.

[@artbykcappadona5166]

Very nice Michael. Good information. Lovely painting.

[@mendyhand3895]

So great to hear you talk about the rocks. So many painters get it wrong for the Smokey Mts. They are for sure more on the grey side… not like the boulders in say, Colorado. Just fabulous! Thx 👍🙏🏻🖌 Messy Mendy

[@helenrivers7345]

So beautiful

[@kinjalpatel8883]

Mind blowing

[@paintingsbypintar]

Hopefully in a good way. Thanks for watching

[@gretchenamirault829]

Sorry, but too much camera movement at the beginning. Made me dizzy trying to watch. I did enjoy the rest of the video and your painting demo