Oil Painting Techniques Tips & Instruction

Even the old masters worked diligently to enhance their oil painting techniques. Here, you’ll find easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorials on how to paint with with oil, covering a variety of topics including classical underpaintings, glazing, surface treatments and building up the paint for texture.

Marvin Saltzman Online Gallery

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Brian Riley

In the Spring 2013 issue of Drawing, we featured the work of Marvin Saltzman, a painter who, when looking for inspiration, travels the world and draws the places he visits. In the issue we focused on his graphite pieces. Here, we … Full Article

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Learning to See: Step-by-Step Demo with Sarah Lamb

Posted on May 6, 2013 by McKenzie Graham, Associate Editor

Nothing is hard to paint when you look at every object the same way. Squint—it’s the most important thing you can do to decipher values. Full Article

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Oil Painting Techniques: Landscape Painting

Posted on April 19, 2013 by jenniferl

Love to create landscape paintings? Want to learn oil painting techniques? Brian Keeler is here to help! With his keen knowledge of art history; his years painting in oil, pastel, watercolor and acrylic; and his passion for all styles of … Full Article

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Step-by-Step Demo of an Oil Landscape Painting by David Ligare

Posted on April 13, 2013 by McKenzie Graham, Associate Editor

Engaged in his own version of time travel, David Ligare, with his confessed obsession with ancient Greco-Roman culture, creates his exquisite paintings in a search for primal unity. In this free excerpt from “Literate Landscapes” by Richard Stull in The … Full Article

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Painting Demo | How to Use Hard and Soft Edges

Posted on April 5, 2013 by NickK

Read about techniques for using hard and soft edges to direct attention, show dimensionality and depict the play of light. Full Article

Creative Freedom | A Free Demo

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Cherie Haas, Online Editor

I recently told you about Maggie Price’s newest book, Creative Freedom: 52 Art Ideas, Projects and Exercises to Overcome Your Creativity Block, and the response was so positive that I’d like to share an excerpt from one of the contributing writers, so you don’t have to just take it from me. Get the free demo here! Full Article