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'How to' oil painting tuition.

This area contains links to painting projects that are designed to help you try a different technique or style. They are broken down into manageable steps. The instructions give a recommended palette of colours, brushes, equipment used and the techniques used to complete the painting. Try them, enjoy the experience.
If the result is not as you had painted it in your mind, don't be disappointed, learn from it and you will probably find it's only practice that's missing.

Tole Painting.

The Tole painting is designed to cover most of the basic brush strokes, including a double-loaded brush, the comma stroke, blending and rigger work. If this picture appears too complicated or you prefer a quicker, more simple design, then try the Wild Rose project.
To see the full set of Projects click the link.

In the Tole Gallery you can view painting where this technique has been used.

It may be a good idea, if you are new to Tole painting, to have a look at the Tole Brush Strokes section first. These strokes need practice to achieve good brush work. Tole is used to refer to 'one-stroke' brush painting.

For a single leaf painting demo on my personal site click this link http://www.jacquiblackman.co.uk/leaf_painting.htm

For videos, e-books and CD's click the link.

Flower Painting

amaryllis oil painting For the a Flower painting to try, the Amaryllis is the subject, with the emphasis on long brush strokes for the petals and the blending of colour in both the flower and the background.
This is not a complicated painting and for best results try completing it in a day.

The mediums used in this work can be found on the products page.

In the Flower Gallery you can view paintings where this technique has been used.

For general oil painting you may find these Free E-Books with video clips helpful at Art-E-Books

Coloured Pencils.

If you would like an insight into blending Coloured Pencils using Zest-it, this page on my personal site gives a good introduction http://www.jacquiblackman.co.uk/blending.htm

Using Coloured Pencil, Pastel and Oil Pastel can be found by clicking the link.

Pen and Ink.

We receive quite a few questions about using Dip Pens and Ink, especially where ink work and oils are used together, also where ink is used on the front and oil work (sometimes called 'rouging') on the reverse of the work.

I've written this article to help those unsure of the type of dip pen nib to purchase for their ink drawing work, it can be found on my personal site by clicking this link http://www.jacquiblackman.co.uk/dip_pens.htm

Oil Pastels

On this page you can find information about using Oil Pastels and also about using Oil pastels with Zest-it Brush Cleaner and Zest-it Clear Painting Medium. This includes background information about oil pastels, the surfaces that they can be applied to and some of the techniques that can be used.

An alternative method of colouring Parchment paper can be found by clicking the link

Many of these products can be found at J and T's Art & Calligraphy