Pink Rose Flower Oil Painting Artist Lesson by Grid Drawing Pattern

Pinkish Rose Oil Painting Art Lesson from Grid Drawing Pattern

This Pinkish Rose artist floral grid drawing package is a free eight page downloadable PDF file. It contains the basic art instruction on how to use Draw-N-Paints' grid drawing patterns. More art lesson information can be found on these web pages. Be sure you have the latest version of Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view this file. Grids are a help as an artist tool in beginning to learn to draw with accuracy and give simple concepts in drawing.

Artist Pinkish Rose Grid Drawing Pattern - Click on Image

Pinkish Rose pencil artist drawing outline on canvas.

Transferring Pinkish Rose Image to Artist Canvas

I've chosen a twenty four inch wide and twenty inch high oil painting canvas for this piece of artwork. It's 100% cotton duck, traditional wood framed and triple primed for oil and acrylic paints. You may want to choose a different size or material to transfer your Pinkish Rose grid drawing pattern to depending on your own artist flavor or style.

From the drawing pattern set you can use either of page five, six or seven for the flower image reference. Page five is a pencil outline of the Pinkish Rose for making it easy to transfer the outline structure. Page six contains a visual color reference that can be used for the hues when oil painting or pencil rendering. And page seven is a gray scale image for viewing contrasts, light and dark areas that you may want to adjust depending on where you place your light source in your artwork.

Placing Grid Drawing Pattern Image on an Artist Canvas

A learned art technique is splitting the canvas into thirds (see Rule of Thirds) which helps in creating a more balanced composition. So I've chosen the lower left section of the canvas to layout my grid and draw the Pink Rose flower.The flower grid drawing pattern image is created with twelve squares in height and thirteen squares across. Knowing this helps in that the flower image can be adjust in size by changing the square sizes to make the image fit to whatever surface is chosen. Shrink it or enlarge it, be it a canvas, drawing pad or brick wall, the size is totally up to you. I've drawn the grid pattern squares on my canvas to one inch in size. This enlarges or doubles the size of Rink Rose flower. Three inches was also measured out from the left and bottom edges of the canvas to move the flower image closer to the third position of the canvas.

After the blank gird pattern has been drawn to the canvas begin by using square D1 as the starting reference point from the Pink Rose grid. Drawing left to right and from top to bottom helps to avoid smudging the graphite pencil outline as you draw. To help even further from smudging a hard lead pencil can be used for drawing. At times I may use a Sanford(R) Prismacolor(R) Magic Rub(R) White Vinyl Eraser to remove graphite mistakes off the canvas. To show up on different computer systems I've used a soft graphite pencil lead to help the outline stand out more so.

Artist oil paint colors I used for this artwork.

After completing the drawing I brush on white acrylic gesso with an economy pure bristle brush. Besides giving the canvas more tooth acrylic gesso seals the canvas. It prevents the graphite on the canvas from smudging while leaving the drawn image visible for painting.

Before Oil Painting the Flower Thought is First on Sky Colors and Artist Techniques

The creation surrounding us in our every day life reflects light. In most outdoor floral paintings such as the Pinkish Rose light from the sky plays an important part in the artwork. So before painting the actual rose flower I painted in the background sky area first. By starting with brushing in the sky I'm helped in establishing many things about my art subject the rose. One art principle is that direction from the light source is determined and this will effect where the shadows are to be placed. Another is, depending on what colors I brush on the canvas will decide the brightness of the sky and how those hues are painted in the rose flower.

Oil painting step of sunrays shining through clouds onto landscape.

This is a cloudy sky background with sun beams and so far I'm painting with a varying color mix of Cobalt Blue, Thalo Blue, Alizarin Crimson and Titanium White. There are a few cloudy sky reference photos I used to help me achieve the desired look to this painting. I've brushed in a layer of under paint with these colors to set the composition in motion and then I let this dry completely.

When painting light from sun beams there's a need to keep in mind some questions and characteristics about brushing sun rays. What path are the sun beams taking? How much of a glow do the rays of light have? What hue does the light in the atmosphere show?

Drawing perspective has a large creative part in this artwork. The source of light of the painted sun needs to be determined and given a fixed placement. From this point sun beams follow a straight path downward onto elements in the composition.