Technique is not the secret of painting. It’s not using tissues, toothbrushes, sponges, palette knives, cotton swabs or razor blades along with your artist paint brushes. Nor is it about “put a little blue here.” All of these have a place in our bag of drawing and painting tricks … but the real secret of [...]

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Hello and welcome back to another great article from us on oil painting brushes for the beginner. Since we started these great articles our goal has been to make sure that you buy the supplies you need to begin a great hobby in oil painting yet not spend a super large amount of money doing [...]

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Oil painting is a great way to express your personality and individuality. It’s also an excellent choice for beginners, because it’s quite forgiving and if you make a mistake, you can pretty easily fix it by painting over it or clean it with a solvent.
In order to paint well, you need talent, right? Well, talent [...]

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Walter Fosters the table of content includes, Choosing Your Materials, Setting up a still life, Finding Compositions, Working from Photos, Rendering Glass, Capturing Time of Day, Depicting Textures, Playing with Patterns, Choosing Nontraditional Subjects, Toning the Canvas, Narrowing the Focus, Applying Perspective, Painting Floral Bouquets, and Walter Foster Art Instruction Program. Still Life inside the [...]

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