Oil Painting Lessons, and more Oil painting tips to learn from!

Listed here are a couple of oil painting lessons and tips that will help you accomplish your painting goals!

I've added a new lesson for learning from the master's. It is a technique that has been in use for hundreds of years and is practiced in every major metropolitan museum up to today's time!

It will help you too! Click here to learn from famous paintings to understand why those folks have all that gear set up in the museums and look like they are having so much FUN!

We also have oil painting lessons on several area's of artistry. From Drawing, and Composition to the very basics in form and modeling (shadowing). Check them all out, and don't forget below, some really interesting oil painting lessons on dew drops.

Its all explained below!

My magical oil painting lesson on dew drops. I have pulled this info directly from my e-commerce site, so bear with the infomercial format. In this oil painting lesson, the main idea that I'm getting across is "How to make dew or water drops" in your painting. For the saving of time, I just copied and pasted it here.

Please enjoy! It's just one of many more to come as I add to the site! These additional lessons will be found here on this page. Sort of a launching point.

I have one in the works on a powerful tool that will improve your technique, which ever technique you use. This tool was used by all atelier schools, Masters teaching their prodigies, even into modern times!

The links to that lessons will be at the bottom of the page when I have them ready! Excerpts from

“A Real Art Lesson”

Bonus material of another free art lesson !

Classical Realism was perfected with the Flemish style of oil painting during the renaissance era.  Within this e-book, you will find the lost secrets to this wonderful method of oil painting that will leave you simply amazed at the results you will achieve.

And in addition to this, you will see two paintings demonstrated, with an additional bonus chapter that talks about things for the very beginning artist.

Now if you’ve got this far, and your still with me, here is your reward in the form of a free art lesson:

Have you wondered why, in the classical still life paintings of flowers and fruit, they seem so fresh in appearance.  One reason of course is the use of the 7 layer technique, which allows the paint to age and fade without damage to the original intent of the artist.  Your brights remain bright and your colors don’t become muddy.  The other is what I call the use of “bling”. 

We are talking about the dew drops and water drops you see through out the piece.  It is like the very fine china that has that gold or silver trim.  In a painting, the little sparkles of light produced by the water drops add super focus to the area applied and naturally brings the viewers eye to that direction. 

In this short oil painting lesson, I will show you in a few simple steps how to create these little jewels of accoutrements that you place throughout your painting to add “bling&rdqu so; where it’s needed, your focal points!

Here is an actual excerpt from my book.  Enjoy!

Water and Dew Drops:

Now lets talk alittle about those water or dew drops you see throughout my paintings.  I like to call it my “bling”.  The sparkly additions add just that little something that brings incredible focus and clarity to a painting. 

It’s like a fine sports car with just the right touch of chrome.  Enough to catch your eye and pull you into the painting for a closer look.  Then you begin to admire the extra’s, the details, the texture, the shadow play.

Under close examination of a water drop, you will note a few characteristics that they all hold, but remember, each drop is not a mirror of its cousin, but close enough for you to tell they are family.

Here I give several examples.

This is how I begin the process.  I mix a color that is close to a nearby shadow.  The drop has a dark area towards the direction of light, then a cast shadow.  These are now put in.

(web site formating (HTML, and my lack of knowledge to put them in this oil painting lesson online, prevents viewing of directional arrows found in the ebook, which point to the actual spot on the picture that the paint has been added)(the normal PDF file of the ebook has these important features to help you see exactly what I'm refering to in the photo!

Top Middle of picture and at bottom middle of picture are pear shaped drops, front of drop and cast shadow of drop.

Now we add the highlights to the drop.  This is a mixture that is close to your brightest reflection.  Usually open white with a touch of    yellow to simulate sunlight. 

In this case, I also used a little green.

Back of drop is added to each. (left)

Highlight to front of drop (below)

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A few more closeups

And how they look further back.

Another start for a dew drop.

The shadow colors added.

The highlights then added.

A few more examples of water drops being added.

These are usually done in the finishing layer. This oil painting lesson concentrates on dew drops, but a much better explanation of the (click here) finishing layer is here.

Some are done in the 2^nd color layer.

A close up of where I will put a few more drops.

Dark colors start the process

The front and back of the drop.

The shadows are blended and then the highlights are added.

The completed pears.

Other details on the pear were placed during the second color layer.  This is another example of the beauty in this technique.  Should you dislike something at this stage.  All is not lost.  You wipe off your mistake and do over. 

The original painting underneath is preserved.

The completed painting. The 2^nd painting demonstrated in my Ebook.

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