Learn about common mistakes beginner oil painters make, to help you save materials and improve more quickly.
Uncover the essential steps to start oil painting. From canvas prep to understanding color basics, this guide will set you on the right path!
Oil painting for beginners: 12 tips to help you improve and make sure you get the best results from your painting.
Király Nikoletta (Hungary b.1978), Oil on canvas
Check out these oil painting tips perfect for beginners.
This exhibition of 31 paintings is the artist’s first major retrospective; it includes many new, never before seen works. His subjects hover between traditional figurative painting and portraiture, with subjects often seemingly caught in an interrupted moment, as if the sitter has just realized the artist’s presence.
If you want to learn how to oil paint, here are some of the oil painting techniques which you will need to learn. You will not need to use all these techniques in your paintings, but it is important to at least have an awareness of them. I cover: 1. Scumbling Scumbling is the technique
By Carrie Lewis in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials Many so-called “rules” of art are more suggestions than rules. It’s helpful to know what they are, but you don’t have to follow them rigorously to make great art. However—when it comes to oil painting, there are three rules that you absolutely, positively MUST understand and follow if you paint in layers, or your work will fail every time. They are: Fat over lean Thick over thin Slow drying over fast drying Why […]
Oil painting is among the most well-known and respected types of art. Oil paint has been used to create some world-famous pieces, like The Starry Night by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh and The Mona Lisa portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
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Don’t you just love Sunflowers? They are so cheerful and happy, how can you not smile when you see them? For my eBay auction this week I’m combining three different pictures of these b…
