Oil, Tole and Coloured pencil painting Tuition projects.

'How to' and 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 Stroke design 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 painting appears too complicated or you prefer a quicker, more simple design, then try the Wild Rose project. To see most of the 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 DVD's, e-books and CD's please click the link some are now available for download.

Flower Painting

For 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.

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

The mediums used in this work can be found on the products page or for more information about painting medium click the link.

In the Gallery of Flowers you can view images of real flowers and see paintings developed from them. A new wet-on-wet Flower painting, shown step by step has been added, also a Flower Painting Workshop DVD is now available.

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
For colouring Parchment paper, a guide to using Zest-it Pencil or Parchment Blend using a brush, dip pen and ink.

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

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

A wide selection of dip pen nibs, handles, ink and accessories can be found in our online shop, there are also many types of metal, gouache and Indian inks available. A new book is available onInking Backgrounds, these backgrounds can be used for many media - gouache, oil pastel, ink work and oil painting.

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.

A 'how to' guide to colouring Parchment paper and inking the design can be found by clicking the link. An alternative method of colouring Parchment paper can be found by clicking the link.

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

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