An isolation coat is necessary to separate the paint from the varnish, protecting the surface of the painting. This buffer ensures that the varnishing process doesn’t do any damage, but how many...
Category: Oil Paint
Oil paintings have long been synonymous with beauty and artistic brilliance. However, painting with oil paints poses unique challenges that new painters often struggle with. One of these challenges...
Oil is a fantastic medium to work with, and it is easy to blend, layer, texturize, and experiment with to make something unique. However, oil does have some qualities that might make it challenging...
A good quality oil paint is highly-pigmented and offers good coverage and opacity. Such oil paints are expensive, so you don’t want to waste them. If there is paint left on your palette at the end...
Technically, oil paint does not dry. Instead, the oil particles of the base supporting the color pigments oxidize or solidify slowly over a long time. You can speed up this process by manipulating...
Cleaning a painting of any kind, whether oil or acrylic, can sometimes be stressful, as you don't want to cause any damage to your artwork. However, sometimes, if a painting gets dirty, you’ll...