Oil paints are indeed quite delicate and demand a significant amount of knowledge and skill to master. Success in oil painting involves not only ...
The principle of "fat over lean" in oil painting involves applying paint with a higher oil-to-pigment ratio ('fat') over paint with a lower oil-to-pigment ...
When working with oil paint, artists often utilize various mediums to achieve specific artistic objectives. Allow me to introduce some traditional recipes that were ...
At first, the simplicity of plain black may seem straightforward. While we have a plethora of hues and shades in colors like green, red, ...
When using oil colors for painting, it is common to thin the paint for more precise application, glazing, or improved blending. While linseed oil ...
These two rare colours have been newly incorporated into ENL watercolour paints (half-pans). Neodymium and Erbium oxides, both classified as rare earth oxides, caught ...
When 1/2+1/2 is greater than 1
A "half pan" is not precisely half in terms of volume. The difference between a half pan and a ...
Many artists dream about having their work exhibited in museums that would preserve art for generations. Even if your painting is not going to ...
If you read an article about the VOC content of paints, you may have a valid question: why all these paints are not labelled ...
In this series of articles, I’d like to look at these two mediums from a professional and responsible artist’s point of view, thinking about ...
In this series of articles, I’d like to look at these two mediums from a professional and responsible artist’s point of view, thinking about ...
In this series of articles, I’d like to look at these two mediums from a professional and responsible artist’s point of view, thinking about ...
When it's about travelling or working outside the studio place it's always handy to have a special set of colours. ENL Basic watercolour set ...
The market of art supplies now is full of chaos (maybe, it always was). Some paints or brushes cost just a few dollars, while ...
This also happens. And here we’re talking about fillers and extenders. Generally speaking, all organic pigments will have a certain amount of other components ...
There are many debates regarding what’re better mono-pigment or multi-pigment paints. As all artists are different and hence have different preferences it’s hard to ...
If even 50 years ago only mineral pigments were considered to be professional, with modern chemical industry development we have more and more new ...
The concept of Art and Found was created 7 years ago by Toronto artist Courtney Senior. Before she found her footing in the world ...
Black is a very contradictory colour: some artists even prefer not to have it in their palettes and mix it when needed. I personally ...
After Iron Oxide Yellow (PY42-43) by the number of variations in colours, another iron oxide goes - Iron Oxide Red (PR101-102). Even though PR101 ...