Hi steemians, today I am sharing with you my process in painting with oils for the first time! It took me 3-4 hours complete and you can follow along the steps.

General outline

Simple pencil outline for the mug. You want to get your background color in around the object. I went for a dark and slightly lighter green here. This allows you to get the right values and tones in your main focal object as you are comparing them to surrounding colors and not the white background.

Adding black to the darkest areas.

You want to be careful when using black in painting it can destroy realism. Here I only used it slightly in the background, as shadows and some parts on the edges of the object.

Finishing most of the mug - lighter towards the middle and adding highlights

You want to avoid blending colors together as it can get messy. Add the basic tones to the painting but don't mix them.

Then add some red to desaturate the green a little

The good thing about oils is that they take longer to dry compared to acrylics. You can place a color and blend it nicely with other tones behind or around it. At this point I blended the colors a little and created a texture on the mug.

Adding the highlights

As you can see I used white for the highlights on the mug. It looks to strong so I could easily blend it in with the other colors and make it less noticeable. I also added more to the background.

Finishing parts...

Done!

Hope you liked this tutorial on oil painting! It was my first time and learnt a lot from this YouTube video. You may find it useful.

Thanks for reading the post and all your support...