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.

Indirect Painting Route | By Michael Chesley Johnson

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Cherie Haas, Online Editor

Learn all about the Indirect Route Painting Method in this free article by Michael Chesley Johnson. Full Article

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Direct Painting Route | By Michael Chesley Johnson

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Cherie Haas, Online Editor

direct route painting 2, begin blocking in

You’ve decided to take up oil painting. You’ve done your research and assembled a starter set of paints, mediums, brushes and so forth, but there’s a problem. Just how, you wonder, do you go about creating a work in oil? Full Article

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Professional Tips for Choosing the Right Frame for an Oil Painting

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Cherie Haas, Online Editor

Four professional artists and framers share their best advice for choosing the right frame for an oil painting in this free excerpt from The Artist’s Magazine. Full Article

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Thomas Kegler Online Gallery

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Brian Riley

Dusk at Zoar Valley - Psalm 9:9
by Thomas Kegler, oil on linen, 15 x 30.

In the Winter 2013 issue of Drawing magazine, we featured artist Thomas Kegler’s landscape sketches, which the artist uses to understand the “anatomy of the landscape.” Here, we feature some of the artist’s finished landscape paintings. For more information, visit … Full Article

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Katie O’Hagan | Contemporary Portrait Artist

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Christine McHugh, Managing Editor

Enjoy outtakes from The Artist’s Magazine’s interview with Katie O’Hagan—a compelling personality and talented contemporary portrait artist. Learn some of her methods for contemporary family portraits. Full Article

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Discovering Oil Pastels

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Mark Gottsegen

Are oil pastels compatible with other (non-oil) pastels, and do the same application techniques apply? Do they have any different requirements for such things as supports, priming and fixing? Find out in this “Ask the Experts” article! Full Article

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Step-by-Step Demo of a Figure Painting in Oil by Thomas Sheehan

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Cherie Haas, Online Editor

Oil figure painting demo by Thomas Sheehan

Thomas Sheehan, featured in our March 2013 issue, puts a thoroughly contemporary face on iconic subjects and timeless states of mind. In this free excerpt, learn his techniques for painting a figure in oil. Full Article

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Pastel Techniques & Oil Painting Tips from Stephanie Birdsall

Posted on January 18, 2013 by jenniferl

Stephanie Birdsall brings you pastel tips and oil painting techniques in her 3 art instruction videos so you can have beautiful results as you learn how to paint flowers and tips for landscape painting. Trained in art formally in England, … Full Article

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The Artist and the Art Model: A Symbiotic Relationship (and a Demo)

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Cherie Haas, Online Editor

Applying what he’s learned from classical studies in Italy, Justin Hess uses handmade oils, art models and the sight-size method to make timeless paintings. Full Article

Tom Betts | Artist of the Month

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Emily Dydo

Read more about Tom Betts, our December 2012 Artist of the Month, and his oil painting, Wired Tea and Peaches, which was a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine’s 28th Annual Art Competition. Full Article