Should You Oil Paint Dark to Light or the Other Way Around?

One of the most basic principles of oil painting states to keep your darks thin and your light thick. Unfortunately, people try to follow this rule without knowing

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Flower Painting Demo (speed video)

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Umber and white underpainting demonstration

An underpainting is definitely a part of the beginning of creating a painting. However, it's not the very beginning. If you'd like to begin all your painting with

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Why your oil painting curriculum doesn’t exist

This article is for those of you looking for an oil painting curriculum that you can follow and learn from. First, let me just tell you that –

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How to make an underpainting – it makes painting easier

How to make an underpainting - it makes painting easierThe old masters would paint in a systematic way.Each layer of the painting had a specific goal.They painted with

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Step by Step To Begin Your Oil Painting

I had the following question sent to me - "Pretend it's the very first time you tried to paint, could you give me a step by step method to

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Underpainting a head – a demonstration

If you have seen my video where I give you an outline for the steps of the oil painting process, this is an example of beginning an underpainting.

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Bob Ross painting technique – time to go beyond that

Many people started to paint by following those “wet on wet” tv painters on PBS stations. I suppose Bob Ross is the most known of them although he

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3 Mistakes Oil Painting Students make

Here is a quick list of 3 of the top mistakes I’ve seen over and over again from students wanting to learn to oil paint. 1 – Not

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How to paint leaves on trees in oil

This lesson is going to show you the sequence for how to paint leaves on trees in oil paint as well as painting your detail and edges in

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