A dipper is merely a container to attach to your palette to hold turps or oil or drier to add to your paint. If you find them impractical to use, I suggest you keep your dilutants in jars or pots. This is more practical by far than keeping them in di...
Canvases are usually flax or cotton/flax yarns, stretched over a wooden stretcher and kept taut by knocking small triangular pegs at the back into the corners where there is room made for them. They are best bought, as preparing and stretch...
A dilutant is a liquid which will thin down your paint so
as to make it easier to handle. Most common is turpentine, but gasoline, so long as it is purified, can be used. You can dilute your color with oil, but this not only tends to make the paint g...
Whichever way you look at it, oil painting can be a messy business. Because of its nature, oil paint isn't so easily removed as watercolor. If you spill or splash oil color over your clothing or the furniture or floor, it may ruin it. It is advis...
The three basic activities of oil painting can roughly be classified as, 1, choosing the colors to be mixed, 2, mixing them so that they fuse and handle well, 3, applying them, after mixing, to the canvas or support with brush or knife. In no ot...
