Painting Practice Tip Using A Magazine Picture

[Diane Stafford]

Painting practice tip using a magazine picture is a simple method my creative daughters use.   

The image below is a photo of one of my girls draft practice paintings.  
She wanted to practice mixing acrylic paint colours for skin tones and practice drawing and painting faces etc. 

 

For this rough draft study she:

• found a magazine picture that she liked
• then ripped it into three strips
• glued the left and right strips to paper
• kept the middle strip off so that area was blank!

In the middle, blank, section, she drew out a rough sketch of the face features.

When she was happy with the layout and drawing, she began practicing painting in the middle section to try and match the magazine picture.

 

Whilst she hasn't got the colours absolutely correct in this draft study, she's achieved a reasonable finish and she gained more practice.

Grab A Good Quality Magazine Photo & Practice

 You can use the same practice technique for any magazine picture,

 

• flowers,

• landscape,

• people,

• city scene,

whatever topic you are interested in painting!

 

The more you practice, the better you get at selecting the correct colours in your work and the more you learn about composition, perspective, facial expressions, and other painting elements.

 

If you give this technique a try, do let us know how you get on.

 

thanks

Diane

[Shilpa Bhat]

Wonderful idea Diane......Thnx for sharing

[medhadevdas]

superb idea thanx for sharing

[latha sundarrajan]

very nice and noval idea.thanks for sharing.

[Diane Stafford]

thanks KNP, it works very well, and is brilliant for using in mixed media collage art work too, & its fun.

[K.N Prasenna]

hey ! that's a wonderful idea !

[Diane Stafford]

Hi srigowri, yes do try this method, it has helped my girls with painting different subjects.

[srigowri]

its nice that she practise with these method.let me also try...