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1: Tips on Oil Painting - Solvents Mediums and Varnishes
If you paint with oils you will need a solvent to clean your brushes and thin your paints. Of course, if you paint with water soluble oils then your solvent will be water.
Turpentine is a stand..
2: Tips on Oil Painting - Advanced Palette
In this article I will discuss the tube colors belonging to an advanced palette based on a basic 6-color palette. I find these colors the most useful and often necessary to round out a versatile palet..
3: Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Nose
In this article we discuss a number of guidelines that will help you with drawing convincing noses. We pay attention to shape, planes, reflected light, size, blending, etc. The nose is very important ..
4: Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Blending
Learning to blend is another one of those skills you need to master
to become a good pencil portrait artist. Once you have a line drawing and once you have laid down the different values based on, for..
5: Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Shading
As soon as you have finished a line drawing of your subject you are ready to start with the shading process. The purpose of shading is to give your subject three-dimensionality. When you are done with..
6: Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Line Drawing
In this article I will discuss the importance of a line drawing in producing a pencil portrait drawing. I will also discuss the details of rendering such a drawing. We start with a gridded reference i..
7: Tips on Oil Painting - Why Paint with Oils?
Because oil paints have been used for many centuries, their properties are very well known. Over the last 500 years artists have tried and done just about anything with oils. Only technological advanc..
8: Tips on Oil Painting - How to Use a Brush
A simple question: Is there a secret way to hold a brush so every stroke is a stroke of genius?
The answer is unfortunately no. It is best to hold the brush towards the end of the handle. This gives..
9: Tips on Oil Painting - Canvas Priming
When you do not want to buy any of the available pre-fabricated canvases you can always buy a roll of primed or raw canvas cloth. The first step in the process towards constructing a finished canvas i..
10: Tips on Oil Painting - Canvas Stretching
If you find that commercial pre-stretched canvas is too expensive or if you are just interested in how the stretching process works, you can always make your own canvases. You can buy rolls of primed ..
11: Tips on Oil Painting - Know Your Oil Painting Brush Hairs
Today, oil painting brushes are made from many different types of materials. Each material has of course advantages and disadvantages. Beginning as well as advanced painters should have some familiari..
12: Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Preparing a Photograph
Once you acquired an acceptably clear subject photograph from your customer, what do you do with it? Well, you prepare that photograph to be used as a reference for your pencil portrait drawing effort..
13: Tips on Oil Painting - Know Your Paints
In this discussion we assume that you use a basic 6-color. The 6-color palette could consist of the following colors:
1. Lemon Yellow
2. Cadmium Yellow
3. Cadmium Red
4. Permanent Rose (Alizarin Crim..
14: Tips on Oil Painting - Measuring Oil Painting Brushes
Oil painting brushes come in all different sizes and are made for all different purposes. When it comes to measuring the size of brushes it becomes quickly obvious that there is not a consistent stand..
15: Tips on Oil Painting - Palettes Dippers and Jars
A surface used to mix paints on is often called a palette. This same term also refers to the collection of colors a particular artist uses to create his or her paintings. In this article we will be ta..
16: Tips on Oil Painting - Basic Palette
In this article I will detail the tube colors of a starter palette for beginning artists. These are in fact the colors I personally use most often Here is the proposed 6-color palette: 1. Lemon Yellow..
17: Tips on Oil Painting - Know Your Oil Painting Brushes
Let us begin with the description of a number of standard brush types used when painting with oils. Here they are:
* The Flat Brush - The flat brush has a flat ferrule, is square-ended, and has mediu..
18: Tips on Oil Painting - Oil Painting Supports
A ground or support for oil painting is any kind of surface you can paint on with oils. The choice of ground is quite important because it determines in part how your painting will be perceived by the..
19: Tips on Oil Painting - One Basic Approach to Creating an Oil Painting
In this article I will give you an overview of my personal approach to the creation of an oil painting. There are of course many valid approaches to painting and with experience you will develop your ..
20: Tips on Oil Painting - Painting Edges
The proper use of edges in your oil paintings is very important. They are, in fact, crucial in bringing your painting subject to live and make it stand out. There are many ways you can use edges to en..
21: Tips on Oil Painting - Painting Values
It may come as a surprise to most people when I say that the colors in a painting are not the first thing the viewer’s brain takes in. In fact, the viewer’s brain will subconsciously go fo..
22: Tips on Oil Painting - The Skill of Seeing Color
Color is the central component of painting. It is what makes it a unique art form. Therefore, it is essential that we develop the skill of seeing colors as they really are. Here are some tips to help ..
23: Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Obtaining a Photograph
The first challenge you will face with any portrait commission is acquiring a suitable subject photograph from your customer.This subject could be a person, a pet, or a building.
Now is the time to b..
24: Tips on Oil Painting - Supplies
Before you can start a oil painting you need to have the necessary art supplies. There are hundreds if not thousands of art supplies available in addition to all sorts of gadgets related to oil painti..
25: Tips on Oil Painting - The Block-in Phase
This phase is the second phase of a basic approach to the creation of an oil painting. The first phase is the drawing phase and involves the drawing of the scene you wish to paint. So, at the start of..
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