Tag: art tips
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What is the Advantage of Using Liquid White for a Wet-on-Wet Underpainting?
From Susan Tschantz Starting a painting with a layer of Liquid White is part of the Bob Ross Wet-on-Wet Technique®. It’s neither better nor worse than any other painting technique, and has its place in art. Myself, I really love the richness you get with a good, well done underpainting, but that takes more time. The point of the medium-covered canvas […]
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Where to Find a Left-Handed Painting Palette
The only company I’ve found that does produce large left- and right-handed palettes is Richeson, in wood and melamine (Buy Direct). Their ‘normal’ melamine palette has a neoprene thumb insert, which means it’s suitable for holding in either hand. If you know a woodworker, or are handy yourself, you could make one fairly easily using a […]
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How Do I Start Painting in Oils?
By Ricardo Guimaraes There are as many ways to paint as there are artists, but here’s a summary of my oil painting method. To begin with, there are two simple rules you should follow. Firstly, you need a surface to paint on that has been prepared specifically for oil paints. You can buy many brands of […]
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Freezing Oil Paint
By Marion Boddy-Evans The tip about freezing of oil paints to preserve them between painting sessions, usually suggested as placing your entire palette in the freezer, in based on the fact that oil freezes are a very low temperature. (It’s far lower than water.) Given the temperature a domestic freezer is usually set at, leftover oil paint put […]
