Oil Painting Intro Terminology:

For each term or phrase below answer both what it is and why it would be used.

-Direct Painting
A style of painting where layers of wet paint are applied to more layers of wet paint (wet on wet painting)

-Indirect Painting
Indirect painting involves procedures in which the final effects in a picture are built up gradually by placing several layers of paint, one over the other.

-Toning a Canvas
Toning your canvas before beginning to paint can help make a more dynamic and cohesive finished work. It involves chooses a tone for your piece and creating an under layer of paint

-Blocking (or color blocking)
Color blocking means blocks of solid colors worn together

-Alla prima or Wet on Wet
Wet-on-wet, or alla prima is a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting where layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint.

-Fat over Lean (also, what makes a paint “fat” or “lean”)
'Fat' oil paint is paint straight from the tube.
'Lean' oil paint is paint mixed with more turpentine than oil.

Brush types:
-Filbert
A brush with bristles forming a flattened oval head, used in oil painting.

-Flat
A flat brush has bristles that are arranged so the brush is quite wide but not very thick.

-Bright
Flat ferrule, short-length hairs, usually set in a long handle. Width and length of brush head is about equal. Useful for short, controlled strokes, and with thick or heavy color.

-Round
A round paint brush is the most traditional brush shape enabling you to paint fine lines and detail with it.

Finally, look at oil paintings, try to find you own language or vocabulary in painting that matches your own style. start by looking at work by these artists who have worked in oil paint. Regardless of if you like the work or not, try to look at it like an artist and think about how the