This is not an oil can - Live Oil Painting Session

In this live session I'm painting an old oil can with some great texture and wear — but from an unusual vantage point. The reference is shot steeply from above, looking almost straight down, and backlit, so the familiar silhouette of "an oil can" disappears and what's left is shapes, edges, and light. That's really the point of the session: our brains hold a kind of schematic shorthand for "oil can," and left unchecked, it surreptitiously overrides what's actually in front of us. An odd viewpoint like this one makes that schema much harder to fall back on. It's a bit of a taste of what we dig into in Painting from the Inside Out — learning to trust your eyes over your assumptions. Reference photo -------------------------- https://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/wp-... -----------------------------USEFUL LINKS----------------------------- If you're interested in learning with me, you can see the online art school I run here: https://courses.learning-to-see.co.uk... Your first month is only $1 if you use the coupon code school1. After that first month, it reverts to the normal monthly price of $33. The online art school give you access to a bunch of courses, membership in my wonderful (and private) artist's community, live critique calls and a bunch of other stuff. There's no minimum period and you can cancel at any time. The app I use when I'm teaching to investigate the colour is called ChromaMagic. It's a fantastic learning tool. You can find it on the Apple and Google Play stores, and there is also a Windows version. It's very inexpensive and extremely useful! If you struggle at all with judging values and colours, or with mixing, this is a great tool to help you calibrate your eye. You can get the Munsell value scale - which allows you to translate values from the app directly to your painting - from Paul Centore on Ebay here, also very inexpensive: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223003792036 Subscribe to my email list to get notifications of future live streams and other helpful info about painting in oils: https://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/sub...