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Solutions for Oil Painting & associated art materials.

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Solutions for Oil Painting Materials

Art materials needed for oil painting

How to preserve your art brushes

How to make oil painting cheaper

Odorless oil painting

Odorless oil painting mediums

Guide to oil painting mediums

Guide to watermixable oil mediums

Guide to alkyd mediums

Alkyd versus oil mediums

Guide to buying easels

Guide to oil painting canvas

Make your own canvas boards

An oil painting that is too glossy

Painting impasto efficiently

Which Surfaces are Suitable for Acrylic Painting?

Solutions for Oil Painting Techniques

Finding the confidence to begin oil painting

The main oil painting techniques

Erase mistakes from your painting

Backgrounds for paintings

Technique for painting detail

Inject life into your Impressionist painting

Techniques for smooth effects in painting

Cure a childish look painting that lacks realism

Do your eyes deceive you?

Escape the artistic rut

Solutions for Art Material Problems

Cure dull patches on an oil painting

Cure for a cracking oil painting

How to prevent canvas warp

How to cure canvas warp

Better photos for oil painting

Squeezing too much oil paint out of the tube

My guide book on drawing techniques

Solutions for Color Mixing

Control your color mixing

Cure for dirty color mixes

Cure for insipid colors in painting

The four states of color

Color temperature and opacity

How to judge lights and darks

Cure for dull oil paintings

Why does red and blue make grey?

Inject light and atmosphere into your paintings

How to capture light like the Impressionsists

Inject life into an alla prima painting

Solutions for the Underdrawing

How to make your own viewfinder

How to use the viewfinder

Solutions for Landscape Painting

Add drama to landscape paintings

Capture natural greens in painting

Guide to painting trees

Guide to painting shadows

Guide to coastal painting

Guide to mountain art

How to make water look like water in painting

How to paint ripples in water

Cure for garish painting of flowers

Solutions for Art Restoration

Repair a hole in an oil painting

How to treat craquelure

Hide a defect in an oil painting

Repair a tear in an oil painting

Solutions for Painting Weather

Cure dirty sunset colors

How to make your sky painting interesting

How to paint cumulus clouds

Painting a moonlit scene

How to darken the color of snow

Solutions for Town Painting

Guide to painting perspectives

Painting detail in townscapes

Painting windows and doors in a town scene

Solutions for Portraiture

Painting shadows on portraits

Choosing backgrounds for portraits

How to paint eyes on portraits

Painting reflections in eyes

Painting mouths in portraiture

How to paint teeth on portraits

How to paint noses on portraits

How to paint babies faces

Solutions for Painting Skin Tones

How to paint skin tones on portraits

How to paint black skin tones

How to paint ethnic skin colors

Solutions for Painting Hair

Common mistakes in painting hair

How to paint blonde hair

How to paint brown hair

How to paint ginger hair

How to paint black hair

Advanced Portrait Painting

Demo on a Caravaggio painting

Paint the Mona Lisa in an hour

Solutions for Figure Painting

Painting realistic clothes

How to paint hands

Solutions for Still Life Art

Painting your first still life

Interesting objects for a still life painting

A still life painting that looks childish

Still life painting without mess or odors

Art techniques for painting textures

Lighting your still life

Make your still life interesting

Choosing a background for your still life

Drawing objects in foreshortening

Interesting composition for still life

My book on still life art

Solutions for Painting Objects

How to draw ellipses

Ho to paint gold

How to paint silver

Flowers in my still life look washed out

How to paint rusted objects

How to paint porcelain objects

How to paint pectin on grapes

How to darken red on tomatoes

How to paint reflections on objects

How to paint food that looks edible

How to paint glass objects

Solutions for Painting Animals

Vibrant colors of the tiger

Paint a vibrant leopard

Paint a real looking dog

Backgrounds for your dog portrait

How to paint dog eyes

How to paint a white animal

Techniques for painting fur

How to paint horse portraits

Solutions for Oil Painting Services

My guide book on teaching art

Insure your oil paintings

Restoring your oil painting

Solutions for Painting Unusual Subject Matter

How to paint reef fish

How to paint underwater scenes

How to paint fire

Art books by Rachel Shirley

No Need for an Easel or a Mahl Stick

Skin tones in Oil 10 Step by Step Guides from Old Masters

Portrait Painting in Oil: 10 Step by Step Guides from Old Masters

The Ultimate Oil Painting Solution for Landscape Art, Portraiture and Still life

Why do My Skin Tones Look Lifeless? Plus 25 Solutions to Other Portrait Painting Peeves

Why do My Clouds look Like Cotton Wool? Plus 25 Solutions to Other Portrait Painting Peeves

Why do My Ellipses look like Doughnuts? Plus 25 Solutions to Other Still Life Painting Peeves

Draw What you See Not What you Think You See

The Artist’s Garden in Oils: Eighteen Step by Step Guides

Landscape Painting In Oils: Twenty Step by Step Guides

Oil Painting the Mona Lisa: a Portrait Painting Challenge in 48 Steps

Oil Paintings from Your Garden

Oil Paintings from the Landscape

How Can I Inspire My Painting Class?

Launch of large edition art books by Rachel Shirley

Art Critique on Oil paintings

How to get Objective feedback on your painting

Oil on Canvas Painting of Old Truck in North Carolina by anonymous

Alpine landscape painting by Ayesha Mirza

Telescope Peak, Death Valley by Jennifer Tuininga Kennedy

Painting of Mary and Jesus by Anna Strawbridge Ziegler

Oil on Canvas of Pompeii by Elizabeth Murray

The Corkscrew acrylic on panel by Keith Busby

Tiger’s Nest Monastery in Paro, Bhutan by Ugyen Wangdi

A first landscape painting by Alison Lindsay

A double portrait with Wintons by Veronica Gaucher

Horse and Maiden in Snow C Shelley