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Why Oil Paintings Need Varnishing
Varnishing unfinished oil painting is an essential rather than an option, and that for at least three reasons:
1. to protect the paint and surface of the picture;
2.to prevent dirt and other atmospheric pollutants degenerating the image.
3.to help i...
How Oil Paintings Need To Be Varnished.
My article on Why Oil Paintings Need To Be Varnished discusses the why of varnishing oil paintings. This present article is concerned, as its title suggests, with the how of varnishing an oil paintings.
Stages Of Varnishing.
There are two stages at...
When Painting In Oils, What Preparation Is Needed For Supports?
The support you use for painting in oils on can be either a timber product, a board product (like MDF), plywood or canvass. These all have their individual advantages and disadvantages.
Priming Supports
But supports for oil paintings in general ne...
What Oil Paints Should Be Used In Painting?
This article concentrates painting in oils. There are a great variety of makes of oil paints to choose from and a corresponding range of price and quality. When beginning to paint, there is an understandable tendency to go for the cheapest. Why spend a ...
Paintings In Oil Should Exclude White Clouds
Some kind of landscape scene is frequently a favourite for beginners in oil painting. That is quite understandable and nothing to be objected at. But one of the mistakes they tend to make is in the treatment of the sky especially in the way clouds are p...
Painting Pictures In Oils: Why Make This Your Choice?
Some artists work in all kinds of different media from oil to chalk. Some work in one or two media while others tended to use only one. From the viewpoint of someone considering getting into painting, I would suggest trying oils first.
Why Oils For Beg...
Painting In Oils And Simplifying Complexity
When begin painting in oils a major problem can center on the complexity of various subjects. This obviously depends to some degree on what kind of approach you take to painting and the extent to which, say, a more realistic or traditional approach matt...
Oil Painting Waterfalls
Landscape paintings can often be enhanced by adding some falling water. This need not be a great cataract in to create some extra interest (as in, for example, my painting of Heyburn Wyke, Yorkshire Dales). On the other hand, an actual waterscape might...
Oil Painting Water
Oil and water don't mix -- unless you are using the former to paint the latter. Then they go very well together. But there are a few pointers to bear in mind when painting water, although this discussion relates to inland water or waterscapes as opposed...
How Painting In Oil May Need To Exclude Things
When a photographer takes pictures he or she has to include whatever is in front of the lens (notwithstanding the limited possibility of some tricks to avoid things). In oil painting, as in the use of other mediums, that is definitely not the case, and ...
Abstract Art Painting: How to Get Started
You don't really have to be as imaginative as Picasso to get started on abstract art painting. In a way, abstract art is the most accommodating and forgiving style of art because it embodies the concept of "anything goes." So, get your brush and paper, an...
Canvas Prints To Last Lifetimes
Many people want their photos to last forever. With a regular digital print on paper, this will never happen. This is why so many people have started to turn to canvas prints. By printing your photo on canvas, you can have a portrait or a photo of anythin...
Fine Art Paintings- Bring Elegance To Your Home
Fine Art Paintings- Bring Elegance To Your Home
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer.
(By Terri Guillemets)
We all want to live in a home that makes us feel good and relaxed. Our homes are an oasis of comfort and styl...
The Best Ways To Enhance Your Household And Office With Oil Paintings
One of the greatest methods to show your very own sense of personality and elegance is usually to showcase an oil painting or other framed art at either your house or office. Interior design alone is by nature art. Art really helps to bring themes along w...
WHAT OIL PAINTS SHOULD BE USED IN PAINTING?
This article concentrates on producing images using oil paints. There are a great variety of makes of oil paints to choose from and a corresponding range of price and quality. When beginning to paint, there is an understandable tendency to go for the ch...