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Your Free Beginners Oil Painting Tips - 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 standard solvent used to thin ordinary oil paints. You can [...]
Beginners Oil Painting Tips - 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 familiarity with the properties of these hair-making materials. Here I present the most used and widely [...]
Beginners Oil Painting Tips - The Ideal Color Wheel
The simplest color wheel consists of a circle divided into six equal wedges. You color the top wedge, say, in yellow (the first primary color). Then going clockwise, you skip a wedge and color the next one in, say, blue (the second primary color). Finally, you skip [...]
Beginners Oil Painting Tips and Advice - 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 own specific approach. But if [...]
Beginners Oil Painting Tips - 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.
Prejudice - The first step in learning to see color correctly is to get rid [...]
Tips on Oil Painting - The Drawing Phase
The first phase of the oil painting process consists of drawing the scene on your canvas. Here are a few beginners oil painting tips.
Drawing - Unless you are into complete abstract art (and even then) it is absolutely necessary that you have some drawing skills. In fact, [...]
