Rules for Permanent Painting

Rules for Permanent Painting Underpainting, Mediums, and Varnishing Oil painting is a dialogue between intention and material. Each decision; every pigment chosen, every medium applied, shapes not only the immediate appearance but the long-term life of the work. Understanding how paint behaves beneath the surface is as crucial as the brushwork itself, and nowhere is…

Colour Mixing for contemporary artists

Colour Mixing – a guide for contemporary artists The artists’ palette of colours is a rainbow, but unlike its sky-borne counterpart, our colours are constructed from pigments, fine grains of colour that must be bound together in order to become paint. The physical nature of pigments often interferes with the purity of perceived colour, but…