If you believe that there is only one way to learn to paint, you are very wrong. There are many ways to learn to paint. Obviously, paint as any individual artistic expression requires training and initiative. However, the person's skills would decide finally his or her own style. Paintings are for many people half relaxation and recreation.

Brilliant Paintings need good tips as these. Draw a sketch of the subject to paint is essential to know certain details of the future work. After that, you should transfer it to the canvas by carbon-paper. All painters need this basic set of paints: Flake White, Yellow Ochre Light, Red Ochre, Burnt Umber, Raw Umber Ivory and Lamp Black. Now, you can start with your Paintings.

Observation is a very important aspect of learning to paint in any style. To master a technique, it's best to watch professional artworks. If you have the possibility of visit Art Galleries, do it, you'll learn more than you imagine. For example, it is time to know a biography of a famous painter.

Thomas Gainsborough (May 1727 - August 1788, England) was one of the most well-known portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. He highlight in the painting from a very early age. For this reason, his father sends him to London to study art. Here, he was influenced by Francis Hayman and contributed to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and the supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens.

Gainsborough painted more from his observations of nature than from any application of formal academic rules. His other subjects were portraits. Among his most famous Paintings are: Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748-49), The Blue Boy (1770), Mr and Mrs William Hallett (1785), Mrs Thomas Hibbert, The Watering place and Gainsborough's forest.