Oil Painting Tips and Techniques
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Using Impasto to Create Texture in Oil Paintings
Impasto is a term used to describe oil paint that is applied in thick layers by either a painting knife or a brush. To get this thick layering the oil paint needs to be of a buttery consistency with little or no turpentine added. One can even add a specially made thickening medium such as Oleopasta to improve the thickness of the paint without increasing the drying time of the oil painting...read more
Creating Oil Paintings Using Layers
Oil paint can be transparent or opaque depending on how much you dilute it while some oil paint colours such as Naples Yellow are naturally more opaque. Transparent applications in thin layers of paint on an oil painting are called glazes. These glazes can be applied directly on the canvas or over thin layers of opaque colors...read more
Scumbling Techniques for Oil Paintings
Scumbling with oil paint is a simple way of introducing texture and broken colour effects into your oil paintings.
You can achieve a textural scumbling effect in your oil paintings by dragging thick paint lightly across the painting surface so that patches of the underlying colour show through the scumbled oil paint...read more
