Art painting oil

Learn about common mistakes beginner oil painters make, to help you save materials and improve more quickly.

Original figurative painting by Antoine Renault (France). This one-of-a-kind oil on canvas painting measures 19.7W x 27.6 H inches, and is framed, and is ready to hang. The women painting ships in a box directly from the artist's studio and is covered by the 14-day satisfaction guarantee from Saatchi Art, so you can buy with confidence.

Learn how to create a sketch for painting with this step by step tutorial. Discover the importance of creating a painting sketch to start out your painting!

In this guide, find eleven easy oil painting ideas, with step-by-step tutorials on how to try them for yourself.

Find five established methods to start an oil painting, that will help you compose your masterpiece with confidence.

In this post, I'll run you through some of the rather unusual painting techniques I've been using lately. Learn more here.

Oil painting is among the most well-known and respected types of art. Oil paint has been used to create some world-famous pieces, like The Starry Night by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh and The Mona Lisa portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.

Discover the key role color temperature plays in painting skin tones that have a realistic 'life' to them. Along with how to start mixing skin tone colors!

In this painting tutorial I show you how to paint a landscape as featured in the image above. This painting is inspired by a rural area in southern New Zealand. This painting features a rural landscape at the end of summer where the fields and hills are dry, the grass is yellow and the trees are casting shadows in the soft evening light. All good ingredients for a landscape painting.

Types of paintbrushes for oil painting from natural and synthetic bristles. Filbert, flat, round, fan, bright, angular, liner, mop, blender paintbrush and a palette knife.