Painting with oil paint

Oil colours are a type of paint with which you can make opaque and transparent paintings. With oil colours you can paint wet-into-wet (mix paint both on the palette and on the canvas), layered (apply a layer of paint once the previous has dried) and you can glaze (work with very thin transparent layers). A characteristic of oil colours is that the brush stroke remains visible.

Painting a Monochrome with a Family of Cobalt Colours

Artist Ale Casanova challenged the idea of monochrome painting by working exclusively with the Rembrandt cobalt family. Using four cobal...

Light is the composition

Artist Nard Kwast explores how light, shadow and colour shape a painting. Discover his approach and practical tips for creating stronger ...

The Old Masters’ palette and its relevance today

Seventeenth century painters like Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals are known for their dramatic light and rich colours. Their carefully chosen...

Exploring limited palettes and glazing techniques with Ale Casanova

One of the greatest needs of painters is to keep putting themselves in situations that must be solved, challenges that force you to evolv...

The construction and finishing of an oil painting

Oil paint is the most complicated of all paints from a materials point of view when it comes to the eventual durability of the painting.

Oil paint Colour-mixing

Using Van Gogh oil paint in the three primary colours: 267 Azo Yellow Lemon, 366 Quinacridone Rose and 570 Phthalo Blue, you can easily c...

Painting an ear

Ears are ignored by so many artists but it's incredibly interesting to paint them! There are so many things going on. Shapes are changing...

Painting a nose

"Today we’ll paint a nose. I love noses! And I hope that I could share a piece of my love with you by this tutorial." Facial features are...

Painting a blue eye

Inspiration can come from anywhere. For this eye, I was inspired by an incredible paint color - King’s Blue. I bet you also already have ...

Painting a landscape

In this step-by-step plan, Anouk Bijsterbosch shows us how to create an open-air landscape using Rembrandt oil paint. Also watch the spee...

Italian landscape painting - Royal Talens

Painting an Italian landscape

This step-by-step plan has been painted using the wet-on-wet technique: The painting process continued while the oil paint was still wet....

Painting lips

Facial features are difficult to recreate, especially when working with oil colours. In this step-by-step plan, artist Zarina Situmorang ...