Oil Painting Techniques : Oil Painting Tips for Beginners

When beginners are doing oil paintings, they should try to paint as if they were doing a drawing, and avoid painting as if they were painting a wall. Learn about putting a ground in oil paintings with help from an artist in this free video on oil painting techniques.

Expert: Carlos Navarro
Contact: www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/c/carlosnavarro
Bio: Carlos Navarro is an artist and history teacher at Design and Architecture Senior High, in Miami, Fla., who was born in Havana, Cuba.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

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[ConcietedMuchXD]

WTF THIS IS MY TEACHER

[ugsmash]

hey here's some pot, I think I'll smoke it. Hey, here's a video camera, I think I'll turn it on. Hey, here's a canvas, not sure how it got here but let's see how this goes... okay, I'm bored now... where did I put the pot?

[wisesakura]

lol I paint from a plate too

[odintiger]

Thats good but check out Super Six Painting by artrant on U Tube

totaly blew my mind !!!!!!!!!!!

[garylee86]

y post?

[casetrls]

fuckn stupid

[varekai918]

Was the boat painting done by the artist in this video? It's beautiful.

[locoroco08]

nice

[bradwatson7324]

@Tang526 Thinner, as in odorless paint thinner, is bought as is from the art supply store. If you don't mean thinner, and instead mean medium, try this: 3 parts linseed oil, 2 parts English turpentine, 1 part damar varnish. Every artist eventually comes up with a "recipe" for medium that they like. A Google search will yield many. But try the one I gave you. I think you'll like it.

[bradwatson7324]

The "drawing" stage doesn't need to be too rigid or complete. It's going to be "damaged" by background. A very general idea, so that one can assess composition, is all that is needed. Sometimes, that's nothing more than a quick dab, a point, in four locations, marking the farthest boundaries of the object you're trying to place.