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The Oil Slick: Great Information for Oil Painters from 2000
A practical resource for oil painters exploring materials, mediums, techniques and terminology, revisited from the Opus archives and updated for today.
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Mediums, palettes, plein air and the rules of fat over lean — guides and stories for oil painters.
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Meet the 12 Hero Colours of Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour
Meet the 12 Hero Colours of Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour Twelve tubes. Warm and cool. Earths, historic blues and a few colours you may never have painted with before. Winsor & Newton's in-house artists and scientists carefully curated...
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The Dream Studio: Inside Steve Chmilar’s Artist Practice
The Dream Studio: Inside Steve Chmilar’s Artist Practice What makes a dream studio? For BC artist Steve Chmilar, it isn’t simply a question of square footage, perfect natural light or having every conceivable tool at hand. It’s about creating a...
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What's the Difference between R&F Drawing Oils and R&F Pigment Sticks?
R&F Pigment Sticks® and Drawing Oils™ share the same core ingredients — linseed oil, natural wax, and pigment — but their formulations serve different roles. Pigment Sticks® are softer and oil-rich, built for expressive, gestural painting. Drawing Oils™ are harder...
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Can I use R&F Drawing Oils on Paper?
Working On Paper With R&F Drawing Oils™ Can R&F Drawing Oils™ be used on paper? The quick answer is yes; you can use R&F Drawing Oils™ on paper. However, as R&F notes in their literature, on their website, and on...
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Lightfast & Luminous: Discovering 12 New Opus Essential Oil Colours with Tiffany Blaise
Discover the 12 new Opus Essential Oil Colours with coastal landscape painter Tiffany Blaise. Explore lightfast hues, mixing tips, and why Aquamarine is a standout for oil painters.
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12 New Opus Essential Oil Colours: Expand Your Palette, Expand Your Possibilities
Expand your oil painting palette with 12 new artist-quality colours from Opus Essential Oil Colours. Pure pigments, no fillers, and exceptional performance for every painting style.
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Lightfast, Luminous, Essential: 12 New Oil Paint Colours
Lightfast, Luminous, Essential: 12 New Oil Paint Colours There’s something transformative about a refreshed palette. The subtle shift of a yellow, the depth of a new red, the glow of a perfectly balanced green—these are the moments that change how...
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24 New Oil Colours from Gamblin
Introducing 24 New Gamblin Oil Colours (Artist Grade + 1980) Why 24 new colours? What’s next?Gamblin starts from a painter’s reality: we can discern millions of shades, but oil painting relies on fewer than 100 pigments that meet their standards—and...
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How to use Liquin Mediums
How to use Liquin Mediums Original article courtesy of Winsor & Newton Discover how four different Liquin mediums—Original, Fine Detail, Light Gel, and Impasto—each have unique qualities that help speed up the drying time of oil paint. There are four...
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Gamblin on Why Should I Varnish My Painting?
To Unify Surface Quality Most of us have been in this situation before – our painting has finally reached a point of completion, it’s dry and ready to be sent off but you’ve noticed that the surface quality is uneven...
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Getting Started with Acrylics or Oils: A No-Stress Guide for New Painters
Walking into an art store for the first time can feel like stepping onto another planet—so many tubes, brushes, and surfaces. Good news: you don’t need everything. Start smart with a lean kit that works for either acrylic or oil painting, then...