Learning oil painting becomes much easier when you can see the entire process in action. This video shows exactly how to set up for oil painting and how professional techniques are applied during a ...

Explore the full oil painting process in this beginner-friendly portrait tutorial. Learn to create realistic portraits by understanding sketching, underpainting, layering, and finishing techniques.

A good portrait not only captures a likeness, but the person’s spirit, says Susan Durkee of Redding, adding, “It is that sense of spirit that viewers respond to, that gives them pleasure when they ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...