Oil painting tips

Learn about common mistakes beginner oil painters make, to help you save materials and improve more quickly.

While painting can give you a peace of mind, the art of achieving a perfect skin tone can give you a severe headache. Well, understanding a Picasso painting

Brush Care Avoid dipping a dry brush into oil paint. For natural hair brushes, first, dip the brush into painting medium. This distributes the natural oils of the brush hairs and allows each hair to load properly with paint. Different levels of the painting require different types of brush hair. Underpainting: Bristle or Synthetic: Requires […]

Here is a great resource for learning all about how to paint alla prima. Get started with these great tips for alla prima (wet on wet) painting techniques.

Add a touch of magic to your oil paintings with underpainting techniques. Learn how to do an underpainting oil to create luminosity and depth in your artwork.

Find five established methods to start an oil painting, that will help you compose your masterpiece with confidence.

Oil painting is an information-heavy enough subject, but trying to learn about all of the different medium types and their usage and drying times can feel hopeless. It's hard to know which ones to try, and how they react with eachother; and worse still, how fast each dries so you can use the fat ove

Ways demonstrated to achieve misty atmospheres in paintings – also how to “wash in the sunshine” with glazes or subdue/unify paintings that are too bright or disjointed in colour.

Learn how to create more realistic paintings with these (actionable) realism painting tips, that you can begin applying to your own paintings right away!