Painting Tip

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How to start your oil painting:


 Start with a toned ground. It can be grey, brown, red or whatever, and it can be wet or dry. When you prime your canvas with a coloured ground, you won't have to fight the tyranny of white. Leave the fighting of white to the watercolourists. This way, there will be a significant tone on all parts of your canvas--happy accidents will occur, and the ground becomes part of the overall effect.

I like to use a rose color. The tone is your chose experiment with different color grounds. I sometimes just take what ever colors are left over on my palette at the end of the day and tone a few panels for the next week,

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