Oil painters

Find five established methods to start an oil painting, that will help you compose your masterpiece with confidence.

Learn about common mistakes beginner oil painters make, to help you save materials and improve more quickly.

What are the different oil painting mediums and what are they used for? Find out how to use oil paint mediums in this guide.

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Oil painting is an old and impressive form of art, but often requires a lot of materials that are not useful in other mediums. This article will outline one of the most popular mediums to use with oil paint: linseed oil. Pairing linseed oil with your oil paints will give them a smooth, hard finish...

“"Avec l'amour maternel, la vie vous fait, à l'aube, une promesse qu'elle ne tient jamais..." ✒ Romain Gary, from Promise at Dawn' 📚 Malcolm T. Liepke”

Every artist has that defining moment in their life when for whatever reason they feel a need to express themselves, and most have a lingering memory of how it all started. For me, it all began with a lighthouse. I have very clear memories of drawing in my childhood. My mother would give me large […]

Johanna Harmon is a american painter, 1968 born in Milwaukee. She studied painting alongside prominent portrait and figure artists with varied artistic philosophies and approaches such as Carolyn Anderson, John Asaro, Mark Daily, Daniel Gerhartz OPAM, Quang Ho OPAM and C.W. Mundy OPAM. Following her 2014 OPA award, she expanded her understanding further by studying contemporary realism with Daniel Sprick, and abstract realism with David A. Leffel OPAM and Sherrie McGraw OPAM. Her work has…

Largely self-taught, Malcolm T. Liepke paints in a style that synthesizes the work of other artists—John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulous...

I asked 13 of the most inspiring figurative oil painters working today what painting mediums they like to work with. Here’s how they answered! Nick Archer “I start the painting process with very diluted paint. A wash made up from a combination of low odour thinners (about 2 litres) and a table spoon of stand oil. This mixture give me a rich lustre when it dries without being too glossy. Later stages of the painting when the paint is much thicker I add a dash of Jackson’s oil painting gloss…