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How to draw shading on trees – Principles of lighting (part 4), summary: 1. If you understand that the crown of a tree has its own integral form and you do not forget to convey it, the crown [...]

Umbrella for plein air painting and how to choose it – Outdoors painting lessons, summary: 1. You need a cover for the umbrella to carry it on your shoulder. 2. Usually the umbrella pole consists [...]

What do I need to paint en plein air (for outdoors oil painting), part 1 Summary: The standard set of things which you need to take on oil painting plein air studies: 1. Painter’s case, and it’s [...]

What to take for outdoors oil painting (part 2), summary My personal set for en plein air painting is different from my standard set. 1. Canvas, glued on a hardboard in such way that it can fit [...]

Which artistic brushes do you need for professional oil painting, summary: 1. The hardest type of brushes for oil painting is bristle and the softest is synthetic. The other types fall between [...]

Color circle, complementary colors, and their contrast, summary: 1. Blue, yellow and red are known as primary colors, because one can’t mix them from other colors and one can mix other colors [...]

Laws of lighting in drawing part 3: Why many complicated forms make up simple ones, summary The form of some objects, which at first seems to be complex, can be easily understood if you notice [...]

Video lesson: How and why light and shadow are formed on objects (shading and turns of form) – the laws of lighting, part two, summary:   Whether a flat surface is shadowed or lighted is [...]

What is shading? Examples of shading on the sphere, cylinder and cube Summary: We discern the form of things by the disposition of shadows on them. Showing shadows in an image is a good way to [...]

How to thin paint for oil painting – video lesson, summary: 1. There are many recipes on how to thin paint and I suggest one of them here. 2. You need to mix one of the following: – 5 parts [...]