MATERIALS

I have so many materials to be use in painting, but it all depends upon your own personal preference. For me, I love working in oils; watercolors; charcoals frequently and acrylics are terrific if I want to work to dry relatively quickly.

OILS

Oil colors is my favorites medium for paintings because it provides me with the depth of colors I need and it is slow to dry, giving me time to push the paint around to develop my work. I even enjoy the smell and preferred using it to paint portraits. The selection of my materials for oil paintings are: - OIL PAINTS; PAINTINGS RAG; PALETTE; PALETTE KNIFE; LINSEED OIL; CANVASES and different sized brushes.

WATER COLORS

I paint my water color washes on heavy weight roughly surface papers. These allow the watercolor to develop a nice texture which is fluid and attractive. I always use it from tube as they are easier to work with. I like to work quickly with soft sable brushes keeping the surface slightly wet until I have placed all the main tones where I want them to be. Then after it dries, I will apply more effects to gets the work well done.

CHARCOAL

I often use charcoal in creating black and white portrait. It could be a colored picture that is required on black and white .Its terrific and doesn’t require waiting to dry.

ACRYLICS

I tend to use acrylics when I need a paint to dry quickly and an effect that is stronger and brighter that water colors. I make acrylics look like oil by using pigments thickly.

METHODS AND TECHNIQUES.

I use verity of materials and techniques, but first of all, I must find out what will be best for me or what my client need before I start any work so as to achieve excellent result. I don’t think there is any correct way to use materials but there are basic rules that apply to methods and techniques.

SKETCHING

I never begin any work especially portrait without fully understand the structure of the face that I’m depicting. I have to create the foundations which have to stand as a guide line to work. To explore effectively, I must produce sketches which will help me to be fully conversant with what I want to depict.

PLANNING THE PAINTING

I have to plan the work where it will be rightly position on the canvas so that the required effects will be out and the same time achieves accurate balance work.

STARTING TO PAINT

After completing a sketch that’s rightly positioned, I then have to begin the actual painting process. I attack the canvas by under-painting tones with large hog’s hair brushes and paint straight from palette without thinned down by turpentine or linseed oil. This stage requires a lot of confidence in the flow of paint. Then after it dries, the real effects / detailing will be added to bring the best of the work.