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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hard to believe, we are heading into Autumn and leaving the 40 shades of green behind us, till Spring arrives again, in all of her glory, next year. But for us Artists, all is not lost, as we can create millions of magical greens that will take us [...]
OIL PAINTING TERMS So, the Summer is starting to come to an end, and I imagine we are all starting to think about attending autumn workshops. Hopefully, we will soon be back up and running again at the studio for weekly painting workshops and morning [...]
Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. Over the last few blogs, we looked at the Primary Colours – RED, BLUE AND YELLOW. * Now, I know, I said in the last blog, we would be taking a look at the Secondary Colours [...]
Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. Over the last few blogs, we have been taking a beginner’s look at the primary colours. In Part 1, we looked at the colour Red, in Part 2, the colour Blue and in this week’s blog [...]
Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. This month and next we are looking at the Primary Colours. So, in Part 1 we looked at the colour Red, in this week’s blog we are looking at the colour Blue. * WHAT [...]
SEEING RED? THE PRIMARY COLOURS Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. This month and next we are looking at the Primary Colours. So first off, is the colour Red. * Red is a remarkable colour. It is the first colour after white [...]
EGYPTIAN ART & THE MODERN-DAY ARTISTS IT INSPIRED Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. It must be more than 20 years now since I travelled to Egypt. At the time, I started in Luxor, visited the Valley of the Kings, travelled down [...]
PREHISTORIC ART & THE MODERN-DAY ARTISTS IT INSPIRED Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. This week, we are looking at something completely different - Prehistoric Art and the modern-day artists inspired by it, including some of my favourites - Picasso, Jackson, Moore [...]
A FEW TIPS - ON WHAT TO PAINT - PART 2 Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. For the beginner artist, it is always difficult to know what to paint. In our last blog, we looked at my first 5 tips - [...]
A FEW TIPS - ON WHAT TO PAINT – PART 1 Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. For the beginner artist, it is always difficult to know what to paint. You have so many ideas on what you would like to paint. [...]
OIL PAINT COLOUR MIXING - 5 TOP TIPS Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. So, you now have your painting kit, know how to lay out the painting palette, and are ready to start mixing paint. But, instead of vibrant and intense [...]
5 WAYS TO LAY OUT YOUR PAINTING PALLET Before the Easter break, we looked at the Painting Canvas. This week, we are taking a look at the ways you can lay out your Painting Palette. * There are no hard and fast rules to laying out [...]
CANVASES – A QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE Welcome once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. Last week we looked at the Plein Air Easel and your kit to begin painting outdoors. This week, we are taking a quick look at the Painting Canvas. * [...]
“Artists Sketching in the White Mountains”. by Winslow Homer (1868) Portland Museum of Art. PLEIN AIR EASELS – HOW TO PROP UP THAT CANVAS – PART 2 In last week’s Oil Painting Blog, we looked at the Studio Easel. This week, with summer on [...]
EASELS – HOW TO PROP UP THAT CANVAS – PART 1 Many moons ago, when I was still very innocent in the ways of the world and those around us, I was delighted when I became the proud owner of a Winsor and Newton sketching easel. This did [...]
UNDERSTANDING SOLVENTS AND OIL PAINTING MEDIUMS Another new week ahead of us and we are already settled into March 2021. Hard to believe but I think this year is going to fly... So I got stuck into spring cleaning last week and came across notes a psychic medium [...]
Oil Painting Palettes – What Do I Need To Know? Céad Míle Fáilte – a hundred thousand welcomes - once again to Emily McCormack-Artist’s blog on all things Oil Painting. This week, I’m sourcing pallet’s of a different kind, the large timber ones for making a compost [...]
