Painting Tips and Tricks

Oil Painting Basics: What is an Oil Painting Medium and Which is the Best and How do to use Them?

What an oil painting medium is, has both a simple and complicated answer. The simple answer is that oil mediums do the same thing for oil...

Understanding an Oil Paint's Label

Oil paint labels can be a bit confusing. Not only because they have so much information, but also because that information is filled with...

Oil Painting Basics: Understanding a Paint's Opacity, Temperature, and Tinting Strength

There are three main characteristics of each color of oil paint that we need to understand in order to use that paint correctly and to...

Color Palettes: A Semi-Limited Color Palette

Oil painting takes a lot of supplies. BUT! Before anything else let's talk Color!

A Beginner's Color Palette: Limited vs Semi-Limited

How many oil colors an artist should have at the ready is an oddly hot topic of debate across the internet. Do you have a severely...