Emily McCormack Artist

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VAN GOGH AND THE ARTISTS WHO INSPIRED HIM

2025-06-20T15:08:43+01:00

Introduction Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners.* In this issue, we will be looking at Vincent Van Gogh, his evolution to becoming one of the world’s greatest artists and how his work was influenced by other artists, from the old masters like Millet, Rembrandt and [...]

VAN GOGH AND THE ARTISTS WHO INSPIRED HIM2025-06-20T15:08:43+01:00

HOW TO MIX SKIN TONES

2025-06-17T09:17:46+01:00

Introduction Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners.* In this month’s issue we will be looking at ‘HOW TO MIX SKIN TONES’. This will be a quick beginner’s guide and introduction to the subject. We will be looking at a few simple skin tone colour mixes [...]

HOW TO MIX SKIN TONES2025-06-17T09:17:46+01:00

COLOUR MIXING USING THE COLOUR WHEEL – PART 3

2025-05-09T16:42:13+01:00

Introduction Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners. * Many thanks again to ‘The Color Wheel Company’ who have very kindly granted us permission to use the front and rear images of their colour wheel which are perfect for this three-part oil painting blog:- Part 1 [...]

COLOUR MIXING USING THE COLOUR WHEEL – PART 32025-05-09T16:42:13+01:00

HOW TO USE THE REAR OF THE COLOUR WHEEL – PART 2

2025-05-09T16:42:23+01:00

Introduction Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners. * Many thanks again to ‘The Color Wheel Company’ who have very kindly granted us permission to use the front and rear images of their colour wheel which are perfect for this three-part oil painting blog:- Part 1 [...]

HOW TO USE THE REAR OF THE COLOUR WHEEL – PART 22025-05-09T16:42:23+01:00

HOW TO USE THE COLOUR WHEEL

2025-05-09T16:42:33+01:00

Introduction  Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners. * Apologies, we had promised this blog a few months back, but we were having trouble with the initial design illustrations, so we reached out to ‘The Color Wheel Company’ who have very kindly granted us permission to [...]

HOW TO USE THE COLOUR WHEEL2025-05-09T16:42:33+01:00

PASTEL DRAWING – A BEGINNERS GUIDE

2025-05-09T16:47:38+01:00

Welcome to this month’s blog on Pastel Drawing – A Beginner’s Guide. * This Pastel Blog is to coincide with our new pastel drawing workshops we introduced before Christmas. They are half-day workshops, with all materials supplied for the session and they will take place once a month, [...]

PASTEL DRAWING – A BEGINNERS GUIDE2025-05-09T16:47:38+01:00

THE ART OF COLOUR MIXING – 6 KEY TIPS FOR OIL PAINTING

2025-05-09T16:47:27+01:00

Introduction to the Art of Colour Mixing Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners. * The art of colour mixing, is a complex process. For the Beginner artist, it can be a difficult and mysterious skill to master. However, within this issue, we hope to remove [...]

THE ART OF COLOUR MIXING – 6 KEY TIPS FOR OIL PAINTING2025-05-09T16:47:27+01:00

DUBLIN ART GALLERIES – MY DEFINITIVE GUIDE

2025-05-09T16:46:48+01:00

Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners, An Artists Stroll Around Dublin's Art Galleries * With summer officially underway, I thought you might like to follow me on my favourite Saturday morning stroll around Dublin’s art galleries. Now, given that the studio is working at full [...]

DUBLIN ART GALLERIES – MY DEFINITIVE GUIDE2025-05-09T16:46:48+01:00

IRISH ARTISTS MARY SWANZY & MAY GUINNESS

2025-05-09T16:31:46+01:00

Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners. [*] In celebration of International Women’s Day and following our theme of ‘the Irish Artist’, this month we are taking a helicopter view of two of our twentieth century Women Irish Artists, including one of my absolute favourites, Mary [...]

IRISH ARTISTS MARY SWANZY & MAY GUINNESS2025-05-09T16:31:46+01:00

PAUL HENRY – AN IRISH ARTIST

2025-05-09T16:31:56+01:00

Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners, our first for 2023. This month in the spirit of the overwhelming success of ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, we had to look at the life and artwork of Paul Henry, another artist who helped make the Irish cottage and [...]

PAUL HENRY – AN IRISH ARTIST2025-05-09T16:31:56+01:00

RODERIC O’CONOR – IRISH ARTIST

2025-05-09T16:32:06+01:00

Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog for Beginners. Last month, I promised to write another blog on the history of landscape painting and its artists. However, after seeing The Mary and Ben Dunne Collection – An exhibition of Exceptional Irish Art in Gormley’s art gallery, I’ve decided [...]

RODERIC O’CONOR – IRISH ARTIST2025-05-09T16:32:06+01:00

THE HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING – 4 KEY POINTS

2025-05-09T16:45:46+01:00

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to September’s Oil Painting Blog. We are delighted to be back after such an amazing Summer. We have a jam-packed series of blogs ready and waiting to be released to you each month as we roll on into the Autumn / Winter including a fabulous [...]

THE HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING – 4 KEY POINTS2025-05-09T16:45:46+01:00

CUBISM A BEGINNER’S GUIDE

2025-05-09T16:24:09+01:00

Cubism Introduction Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog. * Last month, we looked at Post-Impressionism and artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne. This month, we will be focusing on another key artist movement – Cubism. I think this is a natural progression, given that, it [...]

CUBISM A BEGINNER’S GUIDE2025-05-09T16:24:09+01:00

POST-IMPRESSIONISM A BEGINNER’S GUIDE

2025-05-09T16:23:59+01:00

Welcome, to this month’s Oil Painting Blog! So, Easter has come and gone, and now we are heading for the May and June Bank Holidays. I don’t know about you, but this year is flying! I’m looking forward to the first two weeks in May, as, according to the [...]

POST-IMPRESSIONISM A BEGINNER’S GUIDE2025-05-09T16:23:59+01:00

NEO-IMPRESSIONISM – A BEGINNER’S GUIDE

2025-05-09T15:38:21+01:00

Welcome to this month’s Oil Painting Blog! I hope everyone enjoyed St. Patrick’s Day and the long weekend. In the studio garden, we are weeding and preparing the beds for summer, and we will be adding a lot more structure to the garden this year. Last week, we [...]

NEO-IMPRESSIONISM – A BEGINNER’S GUIDE2025-05-09T15:38:21+01:00

FAUVISM ARTISTIC MOVEMENT – A BEGINNERS GUIDE

2025-05-09T15:38:11+01:00

INTRODUCTION Over the next few blog posts, we will be taking a beginners look at some of the key artist movements that have taken place since the 1600s. This month, we are looking at one of my favourite artist movements – Fauvism – or the [...]

FAUVISM ARTISTIC MOVEMENT – A BEGINNERS GUIDE2025-05-09T15:38:11+01:00

IS BLACK A COLOUR?

2025-05-09T15:37:33+01:00

INTRODUCTION – IS BLACK A COLOUR Happy new year from the art studio/gallery. Here’s hoping that you all have an amazing 2022 and that you may find time to join us here at the art school on an oil painting workshop or on Merrion Square for a [...]

IS BLACK A COLOUR?2025-05-09T15:37:33+01:00

SHADES OF WHITE A BEGINNERS GUIDE

2025-05-09T15:37:24+01:00

Welcome to this week’s Oil Painting blog.1 As we are heading into the Christmas Season, a little blog on the colour White might get us thinking of snow, mulled wine and evenings sitting beside a roaring log fire. Yes, I hear you, STOP, we haven’t even had Halloween [...]

SHADES OF WHITE A BEGINNERS GUIDE2025-05-09T15:37:24+01:00

LET’S TALK ORANGE A BEGINNERS GUIDE

2025-05-09T15:37:16+01:00

At the start of the week, I was thinking how the hell does one write a blog on Orange, my very least favourite colour on the colour wheel. I’m not sure if it was the change in seasons that had me in the dumps, with little vision for [...]

LET’S TALK ORANGE A BEGINNERS GUIDE2025-05-09T15:37:16+01:00

5 FACTS ABOUT THE COLOUR PURPLE OR IS IT VIOLET?

2025-05-09T15:37:07+01:00

A hundred thousand welcomes or an Irish ‘Céad Míle Fáilte’ to our 20th blog issue on all things Oil Painting. If you have been following us, you will know that we are currently making our way through the Secondary Colours. In our last issue, we looked at the [...]

5 FACTS ABOUT THE COLOUR PURPLE OR IS IT VIOLET?2025-05-09T15:37:07+01:00
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