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Welcome to Oil Painting Medic, offering solutions for oil painting problems from my experience teaching art.


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  • How do I Paint Ethnic Skin Colours in Portraits?
  • I Can't Paint Shadows on Portraits
  • How do I Paint Blonde Hair on My Portraits?
  • How do I Make Gold Look like Gold with Oil Paint?
  • Why is My Oil Painting Cracking?
  • How Can I Make My Oil Painting Look Smooth?
  • How do I Make Water Look Like Water in My Paintings?
  • What do I do With the Backgrounds to My Portraits?
  • I’m Confused about Oil Painting Mediums, What are they For?
  • The Skin Tones in My Portraits Look Wrong

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Solutions for Portraiture

  • I can't paint shadows on portraits
  • Demo on a Caravaggio painting
  • Can I paint the Mona Lisa in an hour?
  • How to paint black skin tones
  • How do I Paint Ethnic Skin Colours?
  • The Skin Tones in My Portraits Look Wrong
  • What do I Do With Backgrounds to My Portraits?
  • The Eyes on My Portraits Never Look Right
  • Painting reflections in eyes
  • The Mouth in My Portrait Painting Looks Like a Red Banana
  • My Portrait Painting has Teeth Like Piano Keys
  • The Noses in My Portraist Look Like Inverted Spoons
  • My Baby Portrait Painting Looks like a Small Adult
  • How do I Paint Blonde Hair on My Portraits?
  • The brown hair on my portrait looks like wool
  • How do I Paint Ginger Hair in My Portraits?
  • The Black Hair in My Portrait Looks Like a Dark Splodge
  • The Hair on My Portrait Painting Looks Wiggy

Solutions for Still Life Art

  • My book offering still life solutions
  • Where do I find the confidence to begin my first still life?
  • My still life art looks as though a child had painted it
  • How can I enjoy still life oil painting without odours or mess?
  • What techniques can I use for different textures in still life?
  • I have no interesting objects for a still life
  • My ellipses look wrong in my still life
  • How do I make gold look like gold in my painting?
  • How to paint silver objects
  • The flowers in my still life looks wishy-washy
  • How can I improve the lighting for my still life?
  • Rusty objects in my still life look new
  • How can I make my still life quirky?
  • What do I do with backgrounds to my still life painting
  • The porcelain in my still life painting looks more like clay
  • How do I paint pectin on grapes?
  • How do I darken the colour of tomatoes?
  • I can't draw objects in foreshortening
  • I can't paint reflections on objects
  • My food painting looks like plastic toys
  • My still life composition looks stilted
  • The objects in my still life look flat
  • How do I Make Glass Look Real in My Painting?

Info on my artbooks

  • Bite Sized Oil Painting Book 1
  • Oil Painting the Angel within Da Vinci’s the Virgin of the Rocks
  • 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
  • The Ultimate Oil Painting Solution
  • Why do My Skin Tones Look Lifeless?
  • Why do my clouds look like cotton wool?
  • Why do my ellipses look like doughnuts?
  • Draw What You See Not What You Think You See
  • The artist's garden in oils: 18 step by step guides
  • Landscape painting in oils: 20 step by step guides
  • Oil Painting the Mona Lisa Challenge
  • Oil paintings from your garden
  • Oil paintings from the landscape
  • How can I inspire my painting class?

Oil Painting Critique

  • Get feedback on your oil painting
  • Rusty pickup truck in North Carolina
  • An Alpine landscape
  • Telescope Peak Death Valley
  • Tonal key of Mary and Jesus
  • Pompeii near Naples
  • Abstract art from a corkscrew
  • Tiger's Nest in Bhutan
  • A first landscape painting
  • Double portrait with Wintons
  • Snowy footprints on oils

ARTICLES ON THIS BLOG

Solutions for art materials

  • What art materials do I need for Oil Painting?
  • Why do my art brushes wear out so quickly?
  • How can I make oil painting cheaper?
  • Avoid oil paint wastage
  • I don't like the smell of oil painting mediums
  • Guide to watermixable oil mediums
  • I'm confused about different oil mediums
  • What are different alkyd mediums for?
  • Alkyds versus oils mixed with Liquin
  • Guide to buying the right easel
  • I'm confused about canvases for oils
  • Why are there dull patches on my oil painting?
  • Why is my oil painting cracking?
  • How to prevent canvas warp
  • How to cure canvas warp
  • Make your own canvas board
  • My oil painting is too glossy
  • Painting impasto uses too much paint
  • My photos are poor
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Solutions for the underdrawing

  • Make your own viewfinder
  • How to use the viewfinder

Solutions for Landscape Art

  • My artbook on landscape art
  • My town painting looks a mess
  • My landscape paintings lack drama or depth
  • My coastal painting looks dull
  • My mountain art resemble inverted cones
  • The perspectives of my buildings look wrong
  • I can't paint windows and doors on buildings
  • The colours in my sunsets are dirty
  • How do I Darken the Colour of Snow?
  • My Moonlit Landscape Painting Looks Dull
  • My Shadows Look Like Black Splodges
  • My Cumulus Clouds Look Like Cotton Wool
  • Why do My Skies Look Bland?
  • My Ripple Painting Looks Like Corrugated Iron
  • How do I Make Water Look Like Water in Painting?
  • My Flowers Look Garish in My Paintings
  • Why do My Greens Look Artificial?
  • My Tree Painting Looks Childish

Solutions for oil painting techniques

  • Where do I find the confidence to begin oil painting?
  • The four states of color
  • Color temperature and opacity
  • I love painting but I can't draw
  • Do your eyes deceive you?
  • What are the Main Oil Painting Techniques?
  • I can never mix the colours I want
  • My oil painting looks childish and lacks realism
  • I'm in an artistic rut
  • I can't judge lights and darks in my painting
  • How can I capture the light like the Impressionists?
  • My alla prima painting lacks vibrancy
  • Why do My Oil Paintings Look Dull?
  • Why are My Colour Mixes Dirty?
  • My paintings lack any sense of light or atmoshere
  • What do I do About Backgrounds in My Paintings?
  • My Impressionist Paintings Lack Life
  • What is the best technique for painting detail?
  • Why Does my Oil Painting Look Washed Out?
  • How Can I Make My Oil Painting Look Smooth?
  • How do I Erase a Mistake from My Painting?
  • Why Does Red and Blue Make Grey?

Solutions for Oil Painting Services

  • How do I Teach Art?
  • Should I insure my oil paintings?
  • Should I Get my Oil Painting Restored?

Solutions for figure painting

  • My oil painting of clothes looks like plastic
  • The hands in my figure painting look like sausages

Solutions for Animal Painting

  • My tiger painting isn't vibrant
  • My leopard lacks life
  • My Dog Portraits Look Childish
  • The Backgrounds to my Dog Portrait Looks Insipid
  • My White Pet Painting Looks like a Snowball
  • The Fur on My Dog Painting Looks Like Straw
  • The Eyes on My Dog Portrait Look Like Marbles
  • What is the Secret to Horse Painting with Realism?

Solutions to painting unusual subject matter

  • Art techniques for reef fish
  • Painting underwater scenes
  • I can't paint fire
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