Unlike many other digital painting applications, ArtRage allows for on-canvas paint interaction in a way that is very accurate to real oil painting. ArtRage lets you simulate this wet-on-wet painting technique with thick impasto or smooth brushwork. Today I want to show you some of my favourite tools for wet-on-wet oil painting in ArtRage.
1 FIND THE COLOUR IN THE LIGHT
Have you ever seen an artist that uses just white to lighten and black to darken? The highlights get chalky and the blacks feel flat. Not good! As I said before, I love to look for colour in the shadows and the highlights.
2 COLOUR INSPIRATION – SOROLLA
When I stood in the Joaquin Sorolla Museum in Madrid, I was standing in one of my art Meccas. I have loved studying his paintings since I was very young. I love how much colour he finds in the shadows. His use of colour across his entire canvas, through shadow and light, fills me with excitement to paint. There’s something else about his paintings that grabs attention, and it’s the same thing that grabs me when I look at a John Singer Sargent or Vincent van Gogh canvas. It’s the quality of the paint. It’s the way that the paint crashes into other paint strokes and the intermixing of tone and hue in surprising and beautiful ways… The paint comes alive!
3 TOOLS THAT BLEND!
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