Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. oil paint was first used for the Buddhist Paintings by Indian and ...

She shows how she mixes paint colours and outlines why it’s so important to get it right. She explains how to achieve detail and form with the technique of drawing into wet oil paint on paper.

Impasto is a popular painting technique usually employed with oil and acrylic paint. Artists use thick brushstrokes to imitate texture or create three-dimensional, almost sculptural effects in ...