Oil Painting Tips

A helpful oil painting tip on what palette to use for laying out your oil paints.

A tip cleaning up your hands and brushes after oil painting.

A tip on how useful an old credit card can be when oil painting.

A tip on maximizing the use you get from turps.

A tip on how to make your own fluid or liquid white for oil painting.

A tip on using alkyd medium for glazing with oil paints as it speeds up your working time.

A tip on what to do if an oil painting just doesn't want to turn out okay.

Oil paints are extremely versatile. They can be used thickly in impasto or extremely thinly in glazes; they can be opaque or transparent. Here are 10 tips to help you get professional results.

Do you struggle to keep your white paint clean or untainted by other colors? This painting tip will help.

A helpful tip to add to your oil-painting knowledge.

A tip on how to rescue old, stiff brushes.

A tip on how to stop a detailed pencil drawing or pencil sketch from showing in an oil painting.

A painting tips about what kind of palette to use when oil painting.

How to keep your oil paints workable from day to day (including freezing them).

A tip on using what to use to clean your brushes when using water-soluble oil paints.

A tip on how to find a good but cheap turps for oil painting.

A tip on how to stop your oil paints from drying out.

A tip on using what to do if you can't get a tube of paint open.

A tip on using acrylics for the underpainting of oils.