How to Paint Straight Lines with a Brush - Painting Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- How to paint straight lines ? Why is that even a question ?...Well, have you ever tried painting a straight line with a brush ? A brush is a wonderful instrument, it gives a lot of control over pressure and angles, which allows artists to get an almost infinite variety of brushstrokes... But it's not designed for sharp, even lines. Mots often, painters ignore sharps, straight lines, but every once in a while, for a geometric subject or some kind of architecture, a straight line is needed. This video will tell you everything about it !
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Now this is help ! and yes it is for Me ! And for all that want to thumb down you just need to think about your action well before you do so , this is not for you in the first place right ?and for all who don’t have anything nice to say on here please don’t say anything at all Alright ! ? On here This place only for HAPPY Paiter / future Artis lol ! By the way thank you Florent Farges I treasure every minutes you gave us over the years I really appreciate all that you’ve done for Me !Happy Painting ! ! !
you can also use a large palette knife for straight lines.the way you use a ruller
One thing I've done with acrylics (and pencil on paper) is when you've laid down your outline (black line, etc), go back and reapply the same/similar color for the background. This allows you to make very fine, sharp, straight lines, however if you're doing work with lots of gradients of colors and detail, it'll look like you reapplied/touched up the background poorly.
So if you're doing more solid-form, single color painting shapes, this is an eloquent option. If you're patient enough to, meticulously, recreate the colors through the gradients for the background, then go ahead, but these are better options imo. Thank you.
Great video. I never thought of using a laser level, what a clever idea!
I appreciate the specific, detailed, practical tutorials you share. I don’t find this anywhere else. Plus, you make it interesting. Thanks!
Great video as ever, Can you comment on rigger brushes, I believe they were originally made for painting ship's rigging. I have have had some success with them but tend to use masking tape. The consistency of the paint seems critical. The edge of a straight edegd knife works too.
A few months ago I needed to paint rope attached to grappling hooks that were shot up the 100 foot cliff face at Pointe du Hoc on D Day. That meant that I had about twenty very long, very curved lines to draw. The lines needed to be about half a millimetre. I started off with the rigger brush, but soon realised I was backing a loser
So I went off to Tesco in Ban Chang and found a couple of "micron" pens made in Japan. They draw a black line 0.25 mm and the second pen draws a 0.45 mm line. Each pen cost about $2 that's about 50 Thai Baht, they're very cheap
I got the curve of the long lines by taking a piece of card and using "French Curves" to produce the curve on the piece of cardboard. I then simply cut the cardboard with scissors and that gave me a template that I then placed onto the canvas. It was then a simple matter to place the "micron" pen next to the template and that produced the perfect long curve I was looking for
Since then I've used them on another big painting of Mississippi Paddle steamers. Again about twenty lines required, some dead straight, and others with long curves. Looking at the finished job, it's very difficult to see that I've used a "micron" pen and to make it more realistic, I've painted over the "permanent" ink, which does not run, so that they are greyed out into the distance
A blind man on a galloping horse would never spot the difference and it's so easy to do
Oh, and I did use the old "masking tape" for the rotor blades on a Huey Helicopter I've just done. Worked a treat !
Hope this helps you all
Kind regards and great video as always - Chris Newton - WWW.100Temptations.com
I got a commission about six weeks ago to paint four big paintings of fifty year old lorries and oil tankers belonging to a friend of mine when he was back in the UK about fifty years ago. Great I thought I can do that OK. Well I managed OK, but not in great style. The problem was not the thin long lines, because I can do that. No, the problem was the lettering on the side of his lorries. Eventually came up with a solution, and it's worked, but love to find a better way. I tried looking for a stencil, but I didn't have the right sizes so stencils were out. I couldn't find any "Letraset" here in Thailand so that was out. I ended up measuring the height and width of the whole line of type "Collingbourne Limited" I then went into Photoshop and created a tiny custom page, just a bit bigger than the words and then I got the two words to the exact length I needed them on the painting. To make it even more difficult the size of the letters needed to be tapered to a smaller height and width to look right on the painting. So I used the distortion tool to taper the two words so they looked right. I then saved that Photoshop file as a Jpg file. I then created a new A4 sheet and then dragged the Jpg file onto the new A4 sheet. I did this three times so that my A4 sheet had three copies of the two words all perfectly aligned and exactly the right size. I then put a one pixel border around each of the copies i'd dragged over to the A4 sheet. Next I printed the A4 sheet and cut out one of the lines, with the border around it. Using masking tape I placed the strip of words above where I needed to paint them. I then used a Tee Square to drop down the position of each letter on to the actual painting. I'd already marked the height and width of the "word strip" in position on the painting. This now enabled me to space the lettering exactly as required with the taper and heights. Yes a bit of a "pallavar" to say the least and I still had to use a tiny Sharpie pen to go over my faint pencil marks that I'd dropped down from the word strip. I used the red Sharpie and just did the outline of each letter. I then finished the inner part of each letter with red acrylic paint It works OK, but there's got to be a better way. Have YOU any ideas ???
Kind regards - Chris in Thailand
YES....no-one bothers to cover this and the points you cover ARE SUCH SUCH IMPORTANT THINGs TO KNOW. I felt SO FRUSTRATED when I first tried to paint a straight line with a round brush on a canvas board and it went just as you showed. Great lesson - thank you.
Ha ha - I've never come across anyone using a laser in painting before man!
Great video!
Great tips... You could also maybe try a pinstriping brush, depending on your desired result, but the paint would need to be pretty thin for that type of brush to work.
Or: ua-cam.com/video/vYfsZygWUx8/v-deo.html A different genre, but some interesting techniques
I wonder how the cubists and futurists did with their perfect lines. Peobably alot of tape
something so apparently simple is my biggest frustrstion when painting.
I hope to remember your name. As I think a portrait would be a great present.
Don't think they had masking tapes in the 15th century LOL!
Tout est dans le poignet bloqué et de tirer le trait d'une traite en se focalisant sur le point d'arriver, comme ça pas besoin de règle ni de Scotch mais ça c'est la base, l'épure la plus difficile à réaliser sans en avoir l'air surtout quand je travail sur des formats de 2m 😉
Great video, great explanation. I had difficulties with straight lines. Your trick with ruler covered with tape is awesome. I will definitely use it 👍
What about sharpie over oíl paint. ¿Anyone have tried?
5:00 after using ruler tape method, also don’t overload brush, use crusty paint, or too wet paint
How to paint individual hairs (very thin lines)??
So simple,.yet genius. Great tips!
I like the ruler one!! Thanks for the tips!!
“Sometimes you might have to paint architecture.” My EXACT thoughts!! I was having to look up architectural tutorials because I couldn’t find any other tutorials that showed actual straight lines. I love the natural look people go for but I really just want to achieve as much realism as possible
Try train lines?
Was just about to tackle some interiors and urbanscapes and fretting about how to tackle the edges, this is just what I needed. Your videos rock.
What about painting older walls on buildings. I love ancient brick work, but running motar lines is my problem. Any suggestions!?
That was so helpful Florent, the painting I am working on right now had a telephone pole and very straight lines, your video was super useful to me, thank you so much!
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Awesome specific tutorial, thank you.
Great tips
what about Liner brushes and dagger brushes they use them a lot in the sign writing industries !!! maybe you can do a video of them!!..;-)
Can you please make your next video on palette knifes in full details and please will tell us which palette knife brand do you use in that video ..
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Excellent video! Thank you so much for sharing this.
I do almost only geometric paintings exclusively and tons of straight lines and the ruler tip was awesome!
Great tip of using a laser level and putting painters or masking tape on a straight ruler/edge!
I learned so much from this tutorial. Thank you!!
Bonjour Florent, merci beaucoup pour vos vidéo claires, instructives et de nous partager votre talent 👍👍👍
Mind blowing painting. Thanks
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Bravo...
Excellent.
What kind of paint are you using in this video?
Very simple oil paint, ivory black PBk9.
@@FlorentFargesarts awesome thanks, wasn't sure if these were oil. I'm surprised at how clean the tape pulls off. With acrylic there's often some that gets left behind if it's not completely dry.