Here are some tips and tricks for beginning portrait painters to get a likeness in your portrait work. I hope you will find these 6 tips useful. I’ve added some images from the history art for inspiration. They include some …
Ampersand Gessobord is a premium rigid oil painting support. It is a wonderful support that I regularly use. In this article I’d like to describe its qualities and explore its uses. Gessoboard comes in a cradled and uncradled version. The cradled …
So many of us get frustrated while we paint. The painting just doesn’t work, you can’t make it sing, there’s something wrong but you’re not sure what. Sounds familiar? I think we’ve all been there. We plod on and on, …
Should I paint the background first or last? This is a question I hear quite often as an art tutor. It illustrates very well how many beginning portrait and still life painters think about painting. They focus on the subject …
We all make mistakes. Imagine what the world would look like if we didn’t. I often explain my painting method as one big process of fixing mistakes. So, there’s nothing wrong with mistakes. It’s all part of the process of …
There is a very large choice of oil paint out there. And the price range is equally large! A tube of oil paint can be as cheap as a couple of $ but it can go up to over $400 (check …
In the past few months I have been giving away a painting glossary to my subscribers (or clan members as I’d like to call them) and I thought it would be useful to share it with you as well (my …
Langridge oil paints are not as widely known as Winsor & Newton or Old Holland paints yet they are highly rated by professional artists all over the world. The paints are hand made by David Coles in his factory in …
In the past couple of blog articles I have been exploring colour a little. But there is this one place that celebrates colour like no other. That is the Studio Incamminati; a school of art in Philadelphia, founded by the …
Colour is a major part of most paintings. So how do you choose your paint colours and how do you mix and combine them? Can you and should you aim to copy the exact colour of your subject? What does …