Any artistic creation needs inspiration, so does oil painting. How to find inspiration in oil painting creation? I think we should grasp it from three aspects:
First, lay a good foundation.
Although inspiration is a flash of light in the mind of artistic thinking, it is actually artistic knowledge, creative practice and artistic thinking accumulated by people engaged in artistic work for a long time in a certain period. In order to get inspiration in oil painting creation, we must first lay a good foundation for oil painting. The most basic thing is to practice the basic skills of sketching, and at the same time, we must master the relationship between colors and use colors freely. If you don't grasp these two points, it is impossible to draw a shaped oil painting, even if you have inspiration.
Second, be diligent in creative practice.
Seeing more, learning more and drawing more are the only magic weapons to improve the level of oil painting creation. Only when the artistic attainments of oil painting reach a certain level will the creative ideas and desires be constantly generated. When creative ideas and creative desires appear again and again, inspiration will come out at a certain moment. Rubens, the pioneer of baroque oil painting, entered teaching painting at the age of 12. Due to diligent study and practice, he became the chief painter of the church at the age of 16.
However, Rubens is not satisfied with this. Later, he went to Italy to study and copied the works of Renaissance oil painting masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, giorgione and Titian one by one, and devoted himself to thinking. In particular, Michelangelo's powerful oil paintings and sculptures, as well as Titian's heavy oil paintings, greatly influenced Rubens' artistic creation and inspired him to innovate oil painting techniques again and again. Later, he found a new way to introduce baroque art into oil painting creation, which made classical realistic oil painting exude new vitality and breath.
Third, pay attention to observing life.
Art comes from life, and many artistic creations are inspired by life. People engaged in oil painting creation should not only have a professional theoretical basis and accumulation of creative practice, but also be diligent in observing life, be good at observing life, find valuable and meaningful phenomena from life, and get creative inspiration from them.
Luo Zhongli, a famous contemporary painter in China, studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1980s. On his way back to his hometown this winter vacation, Luo Zhongli's eyes lit up when he saw an old rural man carrying a basket on the bus. He got off the bus in a hurry and sat down to talk to the old man. Luo Zhongli felt that the uncle's image temperament was very characteristic and typical, which immediately inspired his creative inspiration. Later, he took the old rural man as a model and created the oil painting "Father", which was a great success.