Free Oil Painting Lessons & Techniques
| Welcome to the oil painting section of CreativeSpotlite.com. On the following pages you will find a great selection of step by step oil painting demonstrations, techniques and tips that I am sure you will enjoy. The art instruction on the following pages has been generously donated by professional artists from all over the world. We are most grateful for their generosity and we hope you enjoy! Happy painting! | |
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Waterfall Demo
To keep the areas wet over the two days it took to paint this image, I worked this painting in sections, doing the figure first. Around the figure I worked just enough paint over the surface to ensure that it would be an easy blend the next day as I worked back into that area.
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The Passing of Time, Oil Demo
This 3x4 ' oil on canvas painting was done in the same manner as "Far Below" where my intention was to do a single opaque pass of wet paint, let that dry for weeks, then go over this with a thinner detail layer that enhances the color and detail, where needed. This is not 'fat over lean' since the layer above drys faster than the underlayer.
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Landscape Painting Demonstration by Dan Schultz
For this 18″ x 24″ studio painting I used Claessens double-oil-primed linen canvas, #15 (my usual painting surface), mounted on 1/2″ Gator Board. I applied an initial wash to the canvas with a color that I hoped would end up being pretty close to my final color for the creek bed in the foreground. I don’t use any medium with my paint, just mineral spirits (Gamsol made by Gamblin) that I sometimes use to thin the paint (which I did for the initial wash, then lightly wiped it with a paper towel).
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Anatomy of a Commission - Oil Painting Demonstration
Although I don’t advertise the fact, I occasionally do commission work. I generally only accept work which is similar to what I normally paint, so if for some reason the commission agreement falls apart, I can sell the painting to another party. In this instance, the commission came through one of my galleries, James Harold Gallery in Tahoe City, California. Commission terms were handled by the gallery, so I won’t go into that here. The collectors are a married couple from San Francisco, who had seen my work in the gallery. They liked my work of Lake Tahoe, but were avid Yosemite lovers (the husband is on the board of the Yosemite Fund) and wanted a fall scene of Yosemite Valley...
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Oil Painting Demonstration of High-Key Painting Method
For this studio painting I used Claessens double oil primed linen canvas, #15 (my usual painting surface), mounted on 1/2? Gator Board. This painting, as with most of my larger paintings, was completed using a photograph as my reference (shown below).
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Oil Painting Tutorial - Painting Drips & Drops By Karin Wells
How to paint water drips on a vertical surface in four easy steps. The following oil painting lesson will demonstrate Karin’s oil painting technique for creating water drips on a vertical surface.
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Cedar Crossing - A Step-by-step Oil Painting Demonstration By Aaron Holland
This winter I decided to tackle a painting I have thought about for a number of years. I am just finishing up on it, and I thought I would share it with you.
I was inspired by a scene I saw once upon a time. ..The town I live in has many buildings that date back over a hundred years, on a quaint main street with vintage lamp posts. The lights hanging in the trees and the freshly fallen snow gave the town a timeless christmas feel. When I saw the horse and carriage trotting slowly down the street knew I had to paint it someday!
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Oil Painting Tutorial - "West Wind"
Dan Schultz was born in New Mexico in 1975 and soon began to take an interest in art. He enjoyed art classes through his primary and high school years, and studied commercial art at Pensacola Christian College in Florida. He received his degree with a focus on illustration and graphic design, but he never felt driven to pursue either as a career. After college, he continued to sharpen his drawing and painting skills by attending Cottonwood Artists’ School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and it was there that he realized for the first time his desire for a career in fine art.
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“Vineyard Patterns” - An Oil Painting Demonstration by Jennifer Young
I often head out to the Virginia mountains to do some plein air painting, and on a morning last week I visited Veritas Vineyards in Afton Virginia. This is a beautiful winery and there are many possibilities for painting subject matter...
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Aspen Grove Study oil painting lesson
This painting is inspired by my many hikes amongst local Aspen groves in various seasons in northern Arizona, and the idea lends itself to my "discovery" approach, painting into a dark value background without a definitive drawing. This allows for spontaneous discovery and great joy while painting.
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Cienga oil painting lesson
”Julie T. Chapman is a Signature Member of the Society of Animal Artists and the American Academy of Women Artists. She has shown in numerous national and international juried and invitational exhibitions, won some terrific awards, and offers a yearly artist workshop for aspiring animal artists. Her work hangs in a number of galleries in the western U.S. and can also be seen on her website. She offers a monthly email ‘ArtZine’ with news, images and art musings – sign up at her website”.