Dutch Golden Age painting Types of painting Frans Hals’ tronie, with the later title Gypsy Girl. 1628-30. Oil on wood, 58 x 52 cm. The tronie includes elements of portraiture, genre painting, and sometimes history painting. A distinctive feature of the period, compared to earlier European painting, was the small amount of religious painting. Dutch [...]
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Oil Painting For Dummies [Paperback]
Nobody ever said that oil painting was easy. But it gets much easier and a lot more fun when you follow a step-by-step approach that starts you off on the right foot, helps you build your skills one at a time, and gives you plenty of exercises to develop your craft. That’s what you’ll find [...]
Nick's Oil Painting Tips: Image to Canvas
aViewonCanvas.com – Nick Weih demonstrates techniques of transferring an image to the canvas. (Grid Method, Carbon Paper Transfer, Opaque Projector). Nick Weih www.aViewonCanvas.com Videography by John Aalto
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Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color [Paperback]
For the beginner or experienced painter, this book provided inspiration and insight into the art of watercolour. Learn how the unusual techniques of pouring paint and masking give a glowing quality to the picture. Pouring causes the colour to tint rather than cover the paper while masking allows more freedom in applying colours. (more…)
Starting To Paint With Watercolours
Starting To Paint With Watercolours You do not need a big studio to start watercolour painting. Quite the opposite, you can do a small painting while sitting in your favourite chair. You require very little equipment to begin. A few brushes, some tubes of paint, paper, a pot of water, palette and something to rest [...]
Watercolour Landscape Painting Tutorial – View to Crummock Water
It’s back to the Lake District for this watercolour landscape painting demonstration of the view to Crummock Water in Cumbria. For this lesson I’m using Cotman watercolorsRaw Sienna, Burnt Umber, Light Red, Ultramarine, Lemon Yellow and Payne’s Gray. The brush is the large Ron Ranson hake and the paper 130lb Fabriano 15″ x 11″. Thanks [...]
Decorative Painting
Decorative Painting Decorative painting is a very broad field in the realm of the arts. Since time immemorial, its definite meaning is being argued upon by artists and scholars from various universities and institutions. The attempts to be exact with the term’s specific context always fail, though, since they are blanketed by people’s general understanding [...]
Tips on Oil Painting – Oil Painting Supports
Tips on Oil Painting – Oil Painting Supports A ground or support is any kind of surface you can paint on. The choice of ground is in quite important because it determines in part how your painting will be perceived by the viewer. Your support must satisfy a minimum of conditions. It must accept the [...]
