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alifann — Oil Painting Process Tutorial
Published: 2011-01-10 16:25:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 76469; Favourites: 2310; Downloads: 1368
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I learned to paint simply by looking. If your wondering what happens in my head on each of the panels. Nothing ! I'm listening to my music. I hear this a lot from one of my favorite artists who say "When you paint, let go everything you know about painting". It took me a while to fully understand what they meant."Blind energy" is a good thing. When one begins to paint, everything you know should disappear and the emotional side should take over." Jeanean Songco Martin
I really didn't feel like covering my process with useless information to make this a proper tutorial. It's not what goes on inside my head. I simply paint what I see, not what I know.
Guidelines, ideal proportions and premade compositions that they teach us in our art school they become more a distraction for an artist. If you can let that go maybe this tutorial might not be so useless after all
Oil on canvas, 30" by 24"
Took me 3 days.
If you have any questions let me know I'll be happy to explain.
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She is so beautiful^^ You are an amazing artist!
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I love the way you agree that what you are taught can become a distraction. The best musicians play by ear, and the best artists play by eye....
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You are awesome! seriously i love your paintings.. i have just started painting canvas.. and i am loving it. I have not exactly learnt but i just do it on my own.. Well i have not yet made anything original.. but i sure will!! but seriously You are AWESOME!!!!!!!!
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You have a wonderful eye, I couldn't even begin to paint this realistically. REALISM FTW
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paint what I see, not what I know. --- i `ll remember
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I thought for sure this was water color. Stunning.
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Your advice was amazing and this painting is beaauutiful
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This is just...UNNNGH! EXACTLY the advise I've been looking for! I felt overwhelmed with information and how-to-dos simply because I didn't feel I could do well but THIS is perfect. I'd completely forgotten about the fun and joy of painting and the whole playfulness of forgetting the 'rules'. Thanks so much for puting this up and reminding us all of what we should already know! Definetely a favourite! 
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Sorry to jump into like this , but if you like her advice (which is awesome indeed), maybe you should also look into a book called "The new drawing on the right side of the brain" from "Betty Edwards"...it goes really deep into this subject and even suggests some exercises in order to help you get into that "blind energy" state...
I don't know if this helps at all, but I find it an interesting reading anyway ^^"
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Ah no cool, thanks bro! xD I'm browsing her site now, it's very good, I've read something about this before but this should be a great help as well. Thanks Alifann!
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she looks like a Taylor Swift .. but with brown hair ..
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I love the captions, that's exactly what my painting teacher said, paint/draw what you see, not what you know :'D
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It is always nice to look at somebodies process and this is magnificent, but the words 
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Ivan, "When you paint, let go everything you know about painting"...who said this quote? this is so deep.
I wish i could learn this concept of blind energy. CG Arts are cool but i think i should go back to traditional Art first to understand life xD Thanks for the inspiration Ivan, You are really inspiring. Keep up the great work dude
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Well some things are good to know ,just knowing how to make things darker and lighter and siple things
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WOW, only took you 3 days? 
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OH HO NEVERMIND IT'S OIL PAINT
THAT'S STILL AWESOME THOUGH
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thank you for sharing...
what mixture did you use for the skin tone?
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"I simply paint what I see, not what I know."
This is very interesting... And validating, as your work is so brilliant. 
Which sometimes leads me to wondering, is the academic way of learning to draw/paint of any use at all?
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i can't afford to study art academically and your words give me hope. i draw in my own bedroom, with limited supplies and little knowledge. i look through DA occasionally for ideas and inspiration. thx for your enlightening and thought-provoking words!
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This painting is stunning.All works are too good.
If you don't mind my asking,where and for how long did you learn drawing and painting.
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It started out so simple... then BAM holy shit this is amazing.
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blind energy is bullshit ! there are techniques and science in it that you had to break your head on it to reach this level when you can just listen to music and think of nothing while painting , and you have let the beginners down with your " it comes naturally to me " stupid egos and posted a misleading "tutorial " title .. no hate or hard feelings , just a word of truth
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Wow, thank you!
How do you draw the grassland? It looks so beautiful and artistically. I really love this kind of art..
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hi...
i just looked over ur breathtaking arts...
i do agree for what u said above and i really thank u 4 giving me a new "mind" on painting (*^__^*)
ur paintings r very realistic n i felt this emotion in the painting that made the painting even more priceless...
it's really inspirative... thank you m(__ __)m
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Hmm, this is really nice... However, I don't think you were truly "free" when painting this as you say in the description, otherwise it wouldn't have turn out so realistic. Clearly you have a very well established notion of proportions and lighting.
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burn!!! zinger!!! wow, way to annihilate everything he was trying to convince us all of. he must be christian or mormon right? lol...jk, don't know where that was going but, yeah...hmm, my nipples are showing.
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When you added those flowers...-'it's magic' I thought C; Really nice tutorial.
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I totaly agree with you... Art isn't about "how did you learn to do this? Teach me." stuff like that... The only thing they need to learn to know how to draw is... what art really is x) Thats what I think.
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