Materials & Technique – Sophie Ploeg

Ranking Art Materials by Difficulty

I recently came acrosse a super funny video by amazing artist Sam Yang in which he ranked art mediums from

One thing I have learned from working with pastel for so many years, is how to mix your colours on

We all make mistakes. Imagine what the world would look like if we didn’t. And it is no different in

Many art schools use art critiques as an important part of their teaching. And I am sure it works very

Painting a portrait in oils can seem daunting but if you follow a thorough method you will avoid many pitfalls.

I never considered painting to consist of separate different skills until I started teaching. Not that I missed knowing about

There are a lot of online painting tutorials. A lot. One could easily spend hours watching them and forget to

So often people ask how to paint this or that. So often you find tutorials about how to paint something

Many of us paint portraits from photos. We can’t afford to hire a model, we don’t always have commissions, a

Rublev oils are a unique paint in that they set out to only use historic pigments and provide us with

Here are some tips and tricks for beginning portrait painters to get a likeness in your portrait work. I hope

Ampersand Gessobord is a premium rigid oil painting support. It is a wonderful support that I regularly use. In this

You are very welcome!

Hi! I love that I can still find these extremely useful blog posts even in this awful version of the…

Thank you Lucy! I hope to write more on this couple in the future.

Hi Sophie, I am including this in my class again next week and was delighted to come across your discussion…

I am way late to the game here, but I have a set of 30 Rembrandt that I got in…