Browsing Category Oil Painting
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Acrylic PaintingIf you’ve decided you want to stretch your own canvas, you’ll need to select your materials. The bars you stretch the canvas on are just as important as ...
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Acrylic PaintingOil and acrylic paintings these days are most often created on canvas. Canvas replaced wood panels for painting during the Renaissance because stretching canvas across wooden bars allowed ...
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Acrylic PaintingWhat are those little triangular pieces of wood for? When you purchase a ready-made canvas it will usually come with a little plastic bag of eight canvas wedges, ...
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Acrylic PaintingFAQ – People occasionally ask “Can I use house paint in art?” Latex emulsion wall paint looks similar to acrylic so why not use it in paintings? And ...
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Artist InterviewsDennis Doyle is an artist and a licensed merchant mariner working on tugboats, where he plies his trade upon creeks and rivers, bays and harbours, inland waterways and ...
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Artist InterviewsNicholas O'Leary pushes plein air painting to its limits by making works at the dead of night, deep in snow and out in the wilderness as well as ...
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Oil PaintingThomas Golunski, an accomplished figurative oil painter and teacher, has tried our Jackson’s Artist Oils for the first time and tells us how they compare to other oil ...
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Oil PaintingSmall size tubes of traditional oil paints and watermixable oil paints are especially handy for painting in the field. A smaller size tube fits better in your pochade ...
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Oil PaintingImpasto oil painting means to paint with thick paint. Impasto paint will hold the imprint of your brush or palette knife. For oil painters there are a few ...
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Oil PaintingIf you paint in oils, you will need solvents to thin your paints and mediums. You will also need solvents to clean your brushes and palette. However if ...
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Oil PaintingThe recipe to make oil paint is pretty short: a drying oil mixed with pigment. This means that your choice of oil is quite important. M. Graham Artist ...
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Oil PaintingTraditionally, oil painting requires use of solvents (usually turpentine) to thin the paint and clean brushes. These solvents emit heady fumes which can cause headaches, and can dry ...
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