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 ...
When using oil colors for painting, it is common to thin the paint for more precise application, glazing, or improved blending. While linseed oil ...
Many artists dream about having their work exhibited in museums that would preserve art for generations. Even if your painting is not going to ...
What is a purpose of retouching medium for oil paintings?
Sometimes you need to have a break from your arts, but oil paintings do not ...
If for oil or acrylic painting we have many mediums to choose from that serve in a different way, watercolour medium sounds a little ...
Tinting pastes have very wide range of use and will bring more ideas to creative artists. However, there are only few artists who ever ...
How to choose the right canvas and why they are different - are most common questions in any art shop. We’ve already talked about ...
Here we’ve collected many ways how to clean brushes after oil painting and prolong their life.
What artists really don’t like about oil painting is that ...
Support for your canvas is another important “ingredient” of a successful painting. Your canvas can be stretched on wooden bars or glued to a cardboard ...
When you paint on canvas, the canvas itself is the first thing to take care of. There is no one best canvas for all ...
That’s very important to know what you’re buying and some information about your paints is available on labels:
paint name
grade
pigment used
binder
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All oil painters have their own lists of oil painting essentials for everyday work. There are many tools, mediums, brushes and many colours available so ...
There are many different kinds of additives and enhancers exist for oil painting (including copal resin) and all they have their own use. In ...
This time we'll talk about how to choose hog bristle brushes. As always, we'll cover many aspects: use, sources, benefits and ethical questions.
What is special ...
How to choose oil for painting is the most common question for artists, both beginners and professionals. Trying and choosing right materials determine how ...
Watercolours as any other medium have pigment and binder inside. Pigment is what brings colours, normally, in a powder from. And binder is kind ...