Mini Tutorial: Starting your first oil painting
Dedicated to GizTheGunslinger! LOL. I was going to just write a response to a post she made in a previous post, but it got too big and so I made it into its own post. I was intending to write tutorials...
View Article“Color and Light” by James Gurney: MUST HAVE NOW
I just heard about this book from some other artists and immediately ordered it. It should arrive in a few days. It’s written by James Gurney, author of Dinotopia. I am familiar with Gurney’s work (saw...
View ArticleWhen things start to go wrong: Getting better accuracy in a painting (and...
It’s my own fault. I plowed right in and started painting, without doing enough preliminary sketching or measuring of my image. And this is what I get. But since I’m painting in oils and I don’t paint...
View ArticleDude It’s Kevin—small quickie oil (alkyd) sketch in Transparent Oxide Red
I have been reading Richard Schmid’s “Alla Prima” (also available on his site) and he extolls the virtues of Transparent Oxide Red. Well, I never used many transparent earth colors, but I loved the...
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