Lilac Oil Painting Tutorial 🌿 How to Paint Flowers with Oil on Paper

Loosen up your brushstrokes with this beginner friendly oil painting tutorial starring my favourite spring flowers that are just so unapologetically pretty...lilacs! In this next instalment in my Botanical Sketchbook series of flowers, I'll be teaching you how to paint some lovely, loose lilacs using oil. I'm using oil paints on paper, but you can use any medium you want, on any surface you'd like. Just modify the instructions accordingly; if you're painting on a canvas instead of paper, you won't be doing the same kind of acrylic ink tone and writing, and if you're painting in acrylic you'll need to softly blend the colours on the palette instead of the paper, since the dry time is so fast.

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General materials:
Grey glass palette for oils: https://geni.us/greyglasspalette (Amazon)
Stillman & Birn Zeta Series sketchbook: https://geni.us/stillmanbirnzeta (Amazon)
Line template for drawing lines: https://geni.us/linetemplate (Amazon)

Paints:
M. Graham Co. Fast Dry Titanium White: https://geni.us/fastdrywhite (Amazon)
Winsor & Newton Ultramarine Blue: https://geni.us/ultramarine (Amazon)
M. Graham Co. Quinacridone Violet: https://geni.us/quinacridoneviolet (Amazon)
Winsor & Newton Quinacridone Red: https://geni.us/quinacridonered (Amazon)
Winsor & Newton Burnt Umber: https://geni.us/burntumberoil (Amazon)
Gamblin 1980 Cadmium Yellow Medium: https://geni.us/cadmiumyellowmedium (Amazon)
Rembrandt Paints Cinnabar Green: https://geni.us/cinnabargreen (Amazon)
Winsor & Newton Sap Green: https://geni.us/sapgreen (Amazon)

Acrylic Inks:
Sennelier Ultramarine Blue: https://geni.us/acrylicinkultramarine (Amazon)
Liquitex Deep Violet: https://geni.us/acrylicinkdeepviolet (Amazon)
Sennelier 03 Gold Ink: https://geni.us/senneliergold (Amazon)

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Getting started: our palette colours and materials
01:08 Adding the drawing
02:16 Adding ballpoint pen
02:49 Adding writing
03:20 Toning the pages with ink and fixing a mistake
04:58 Sealing the pages with shellac
05:40 Mixing your colours
06:11 Starting the painting
07:01 Mixing Greens
07:26 Adding Foliage
08:54 Adding Details
09:41 How to keep your brushstrokes loose
10:57 Adding more writing in metallic ink
12:40 Final Reveal