All about Color Mixing

Oil paint is a wonderful multitalented medium. But with all the varieties of colors, brushes, mediums and all other tools existing, it is actually enough to make one confuse. When you learn about the variety of brushes and mediums it could be bit confusing as well, and in fact it is a major challenges to exactly depict the nature and other real life objects on canvas using color. Often one is puzzled on how to create color lighter or darker? Or how to make original shadows or highlights? Now

Lost Angel-Original Oil Painting Of An Angel by Marina Petro

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA Lost Angel 7 x 5 (17.8cm x 12.7cm) Oil on Canvas $100 plus $10 shipping and handling in the US E-mail me for International shipping rates or other inquiries. I'm pretty sure this painting (especially the angel) looks better in person than in this image. I had to do a lot of photo editing to get it as close to the actual colors. I recently switched settings on my computer display on the advice of an employee at the Apple Comp

Cat poop palette

I took my 2nd oil painting class this week. My wonderful teacher, Margaret, kind of bummed me out by squirting out white, red, black and cat poop colors and I could only work from them. Where's the pink? The chartreuse? The magenta and aqua?! Well, she encouraged me to stick w/ it and when she sent me this photo, i can't believe that I actually did this! I mean, even Husband identified the thing on the left as a pear.

Reflections of Spring I ~ 16×20 ~ A Painting a Day Hudson River School Luminous Landscapes by Connie Tom

Reflections of Spring I was a delight to paint. After having painted seven in a series of reflections of Autumn, this is the first painting in a new series of paintings of Spring. The colors just seemed to stir up in me the urge to get outside and plant flowers or a garden or something. I hope you enjoy this painting as much as I enjoyed painting it! ~ Connie To find out more information about this work, see my blog at A PAINTING FOR YOU! And let us not be weary in well doing, for in

Rebecca Volynsky

Rebecca Volynsky is an artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. What are some of your favorite drawing tools (pens, pencils, markers, drawing tablet, all of the above)? I prefer using Faber-Castell indian ink artist pens/markers for most of my work because they just have incredible quality, great colors, and last a super long time. I have recently purchased a few Pantone Universe markers, which are extremely permanent, and have fine line and brush tips. Yet, they are overly pot

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