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How to mix colors, and not get mud!

Artists struggle in how to mix colors, this color mixing guide guaranteed to make your paintings pop! Paint color combinations in all mediums with no fear!

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Color Mixing Guide

An artist oil painting color mixing guide, oil paint color mixing.

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When there's no more a sea in between!!

The story of this boat on the shore? It is far to small to sail the ocean from South Africa to NZ But one day there will be no sea in between.......I worked

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Cleaning brush hairs before next layer

Hey, I was wondering how you remove the brush hairs between layers without removing paint too? I tried use a razor blade (to clean brush hairs and dust

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Oil Painting Techniques, Tips, Lessons, that are Easy, Simple, FUN!

Learn these oil painting techniques, oil painting lessons, and tips and enjoy a lifetime of creative freedom!

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Why does it take so long for oil paint to dry on canvas, days?

Why does it take oil base paint so long to dry (days)? Answer: Oils don't dry like something that is wet with water, and the water evaporates. Oils

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Small Country Spring

This painting is of a small natural spring in Northwest Florida. We have many of these in the area where I live. They are clear with a beautiful blue/green

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Lesson to copy famous paintings

Copy Famous Paintings and Learn to oil paint from this time honored tradition of oil painting techniques.

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Leonardo Da Vinci paintings, decoding the code!

Leonardo Da Vinci paintings and some of the mystery solved! A look at the Mona Lisa Painting.

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Mona Lisa painting and more Leonardo Da Vinci art history part 2.

Leonardo Da Vinci's mona lisa painting and some great art history about this painting.

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Oil Painting self portraits

Under paintings done using paper towels instead of brushes. Must see to believe.

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Legitimate work from home, sell my products!

Legitimate work from home, sell my products! Take your website and make some real money.

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Tio Jose

*Pastels on blue paper (58cm x 48.4cm) Hello. Glad to find this web. Thank you for sharing. I was inspired by uncle Jose having a breakfast. He is 83

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Wikato river in NZ

My kids are staying in NZ (I am staying in SA) and it was pure loneliness that inspired me to paint this. I would love your critic on it. (I am painting

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Finishing Layer for the flemish oil painting layered technique.

This is your final finishing layer in our oil painting lessons using the flemish technique of oil painting.

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Color layer within the flemish technique of oil painting.

The color layer of your flemish technique oil painting.

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The dead layer, or gray-layer of the flemish oil painting technique.

The dead layer, or gray-layer of the flemish oil painting technique. Where your shadows and half shadows are fully developed.

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umber under layer, oil painting, oil painting techniques, under painting

Umber under layer, the 2nd layer and brown under painting in the Flemish oil painting technique.

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Imprimatura, or Toning the canvas, the first layer in oil painting techniques.

Imprimatura, This is your first painting layer as decribed in oil painting techniques.

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Real Art Lesson

A Real Art Lesson will show you step-by-step, the most effective oil painting method ever developed!

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The Laughing Cavalier portrait painting

The Laughing Cavalier, portrait painting demonstration, several stages shown.

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Brady's Custer

I started painting a few years ago while living in Japan. Tried the Ross method, but couldn't get it to work. Starting with photos I took, i tried

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Grandma & Zuri

I have been painting as a hobby for many years (I am 60). I have sold a few along the way and have had some portrait commissions the last couple of years.

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Tiffany Portrait Painting

Tiffany was a painting that took about two weeks. I had a fun time with this painting, and why you ask! Well I painted her after I painted Vermeer's

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H.H. Buck

This is my grandfather, the founder of Buck Knife Company. It is nearly complete, but I am unhappy with the background. Any suggestions? Delmus? Help?

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Commissioned portrait work

Hi Mr. Delmus, Last year I was contacted to paint 2 portraits, it took me almost a year to complete those two paintings. I would like very much to read

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Madonna and Child

Hi Delmus Here goes my last work, I tried my best, but may be the cast shadows are to dark?! I would love to read your opinion. best regards Liliana

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Tennis Players - Essence of the Man: Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.

How do I start? This is a painting I did approximately 17 yrs. ago. I share it because it had a devastating effect on me at that time. I was in a

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Anna

Anna is my oldest daughter. Her younger sister took a photo of her and as soon as I saw it, I knew I'd have to paint it. I gave it to her as a birthday

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Portrait Painting ideas and techniques.

Portrait Painting ideas and techniques, for oil painting. We answer the why's and what for's in this historical genre of oil painting.

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