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Painting Tips
Introduction to Oil Painting Techniques
By Ralph Serpe

Oil paint is an amazing versatile medium. It can be applied in a thick buttery fashion or thinned down to a watery consistency. This versatility opens the door to a number of different painting techniques.

My personal preference is to begin my oil paintings by first sketching out the composition using acrylic paint or with water-soluble oil paints. The popular approach to oil painting is to thin the paint with turpentine to apply your initial layers. Turpentine is quite toxic and I prefer not to work with it. Acrylic or water-soluble oil paints can be thinned down with plain old water and are more pleasant to work with in my opinion.

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Oil Pastels - Discover a World of Brilliant Color E-mail

by Lois Dewitt

A CONTEMPORARY MEDIUM

Oil pastels are a fairly new art medium. In the mid 1920's, the first soft pastel was developed. Called Cray-pas, this soft pastel was considered an upgrade from crayons. It wasn't until 1947, upon the request of the artists Pablo Picasso and Henri Goetz, the materials manufacturer Sennelier set about to create a soft, artists' quality pastel.

Picasso wanted a pastel stick that could be used on a variety of surfaces, like wood, clay or canvas. Goetz want a pastel which could be used with directness and immediacy, and would allow him to work directly on a surface, without brushes, palette knives or any other kind of tool.

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Painting a Mountain Sunset using Watercolour E-mail

by Giselle Luske

Step 1

  • Watercolour - 1Draw / sketch a mountain range with a 2B Pencil
  • Lay down a wash - wet on dry - of New Gamboge or Light Yellow
  • While the paper is still damp, use Bright Yellow for different cloud formations, plus some light orange for the clouds just over the mountain peaks
  • Use tissue paper for taking out some cloud shapes, revealing the Light Yellow again...

... let it dry

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Pastel Painting Equipment E-mail

by John A Burton

Firstly, there are the pastels themselves. They are made from pure powdered pigment bound with a small quantity of gum binder (low quality pastels have chalk added). Pastels come in many varieties (hard, soft, sticks, pencils, etc.) but they are essentially all the same: the final choice is largely a matter of personal preference.

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Pastel Tips E-mail

by Louise Corke

Pressure

Pressure is everything. Most problems arise in pastel application due to using the wrong pressure at the wrong time. By pressure I am referring to how hard you engage the pastel to the surface.

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Studio Painting

By Armand Cabrera

Physically, painting in the studio differs from outdoor painting in only one respect---there is no time constraint on your efforts. The actual process of studio painting is generally the same as outdoor painting, though often more refined.

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Technique of Watercolor Painting E-mail

By John Blenkin

Technique of watercolor painting is intended for a wide variety of painters from absolute beginners to more advanced painters. Although the texts are specifically for watercolorists many of the matters discussed are of interest also to both painters in oil and other mediums.

This series of articles is about Technique.

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Tips For Artists - Painting in a Series

By Jill Stefani Wagner

In college, I majored in art, fully expecting to live my dream of being a painter. However, reality set in during my senior year. I would need to feed myself after I graduated and I was deathly afraid of becoming one of the classic "starving artists". I decided to take some graphics classes and left art behind for a 25-year career in advertising.

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