Painting mist with oil paints can be difficult, especially if this is the first picture for you. On the one hand, nothing complicated, but on the other hand, the fog has many shades, different “thickness” and still need to convey its transparency. In this article I will try to demonstrate this, using the example of […]

Let me show you the process of painting a summer landscape with a little girl who is fishing. As in previous articles on the phasing of a picture with oil paints, this time he prepared a video and a photo. As usual on a tinted canvas, he drew a drawing with a pencil, which he […]

To paint a picture with a sea landscape, almost every artist has such a desire. Regardless of experience and preferences in the style of painting, the sea can be paint in different ways. The painting in stages with a seascape was painted quickly (in one evening) without a palette knife only with art brushes. The […]

In this post I want to show you one of the options for painting a mountain landscape. I want to introduce you the landscape of Armenia with two attractions of this wonderful country. This is Mount Ararat and the temple of Khor Virap. The canvas for this picture is medium-grained, size 40 cm x 50 […]

Want to paint a lavender field? This beautiful and sunny story has long been embodied in the paintings of many artists. In this post I will try to show how to paint a lavender field, and to make the plot of the picture more interesting, a mother with a baby in her arms will walk […]

Is it difficult to paint a brown bear? Not at all! In this article, we will paint a picture in stages with the extraordinary name “tenderness” with the image of a big bear that hugs a fragile girl. And so let’s get started! First of all, I want to say about the materials that I […]

Let me introduce you to one of my last paintings, “Grandma’s House”. Probably, there is nothing special for you in it, but for me it is very expensive. This picture shows the old house of my grandmother, or more precisely, my memories. Grandma’s house forever remained in my childhood memories. After all, I spent more […]

Phased painting is a very exciting, enjoyable process. For an experienced artist, there is nothing unusual, but for beginning artists, the question of how to draw a picture in stages is very relevant. In this article, I decided to show the phased writing of the picture with oil paints on the example of the painting […]

Actually, an oil painting thinner has a primary role in painting process. Not everything concerning oil paints  is as simple as watercolor painting, gouache,  acryl  thinned with water. There are different types and functions of paint thinners for oil-based paints. There are many thinner bottles in an art store, but what should we choice? First of all, let’s […]

Have you seen my oil painting, “koi fish” (or, as they are also called, Japanese carps)? For me, she became the first picture to paint with fish. Before that, I never wrote them, but I wanted to try. Especially for “koi fish”, I bought a canvas of a slightly elongated shape 40 cm x 60 […]