Oil painting exercises

Practice is important. You don't have to create completed paintings in order to improve quickly. These four painting exercises are designed to improve your painting skills in half the time.

Color and Form In this exercise the colored toys provide bright simple forms to practice mixing three values of colors. When you see a colored object you are seeing many values of that color. Becau…

Various Oil Painting Methods Overview – Old Masters Academy

As some of you already know, I ventured on the Overland Track in Tasmania recently. The scenery there was stunning and of course I managed to take many reference photos to paint back in the studio. I recently put the finishing touches on a painting based on the following reference photo. Here is a step-by-step ... Read more

Sarah Calandro is an alla prima oil painter and art educator dedicated to mastery and growth. Her paintings are luminous, abstracted impressions of the subject matter she paints. Her teaching is focused on simplifying the fundamentals of oil painting, helping her students learn and more successfully apply value and color theory principles to their work.

Rembrandt techniques serve as inspiration for thousands of artists who aspire to learn from Rembrandt. Here are 5 tips from one of the greatest Old Masters.

What is the difference between oil and acrylic paint? Here’s a comparison of the two most popular types of artist’s paints. [ OILS vs. ACRYLICS ]

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