Masterclass

All Acrylic Calligraphy Mediums Mixing Oil Priming Watercolour

Watercolour Blending Medium

Blending Medium for watercolour is an often-overlooked medium that will slow the drying process, making it possible to blend watercolours for longer; water alone dries much more quickly. This medium...

Glazing in oils

The art of glazing, why and how to glaze your work, is described in this masterclass. Glazing is a technique used to bring together light and dark tones, and to...

How to use Liquin Mediums

There are five types of Liquin mediums, each will help you accelerate the drying times of oil paint; the varieties are a slightly different formulation of the original. There is...

Understanding black oil paint

Exploring the unique qualities of the five blacks in Winsor & Newton’s Artists’ Oil Colour, we examine Ivory, Lamp, Mars, Perylene and Blue Blacks. Ivory and Lamp Blacks are carbon-based...

Opaque and transparent pigments in oil painting

This masterclass demonstrates the differences between opaque and transparent oil colours, using a palette of primaries that includes an example of each. The colours used are Cadmium Yellow, Transparent Yellow,...

Fat over lean rule explained

The fat over lean rule is a critical method of working to ensure your painting stands the test of time. This requires that each successive layer has slightly more oil,...

White, clear and tinted techniques with Acrylic Gesso

To prevent your oil paint from sinking into the support, you should always prime your canvas; here we will demonstrate using white, clear and tinted gesso to prepare a canvas....