Painting with oil paint

Oil colours are a type of paint with which you can make opaque and transparent paintings. With oil colours you can paint wet-into-wet (mix paint both on the palette and on the canvas), layered (apply a layer of paint once the previous has dried) and you can glaze (work with very thin transparent layers). A characteristic of oil colours is that the brush stroke remains visible.

Painting an eye - Royal Talens
Painting with oil paint

Painting an eye

Let’s paint an eye together.

For this painting I wanted to use as few supplies as possible, so you won’t have to go out and buy something new. You’ll need only 4 colors and I bet you already have them. It’s white, red, yellow and black. The palette that we’ll be using today was created by a famous Swedish artist Anders Zorn.

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