Category: Oils
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Why Artists Love To Use LUKAS Paints!
Legendary Quality Paints, High Performance, Great Prices! Many of you are probably already familiar with German-made LUKAS paints: with a history spanning back almost 150 years, LUKAS has consistently produced high quality, artist grade paints of the finest caliber — and has a dedicated following to prove it! If, however, you have never had the…..
Jerry's -- 08/07/2011
Mother Nature’s Child In Oils by Cheryl Whitestone
Mother Nature’s Child Mother Nature’s Child: 24″ x 36″ Oil Paint on Linen Canvas Mother Nature’s Child is Currently this painting is being exhibited at the State Botanical Gardens in Athens Georgia, through mid Feb. 2011. This is a portrait of a little girl who had been out on a hike with her mother, a…..
Jerry's -- 24/01/2011
Don’t Forget to Protect Your Artwork
You’ve just finished a piece of art and it’s fantastic and you can’t wait to display it or sell it. You haven’t applied a protective coating because you love what you have done and are not sure what a coating will do to your art. So you think you are better off doing nothing. Here’s…..
Jerry's -- 22/06/2010
How to use Krylon® Gallery Series™ Quick Dry for Oil Paintings
Spray varnishes, fixatives and other art coatings are very easy to apply to your artwork, but before you point and spray, don’t forget to read the directions. Fine art spray coatings can vary a great deal in how they are applied because they can vary dramatically in how they are made and what they do. …..
Jerry's -- 22/06/2010
Paintings Paint Themselves by Valerie (Valry) Drake
At least in my dreams they do. Vibrant slashes of brilliant hues dance across the stretched canvas. Big wide paintbrushes dip into soft, buttery mounds of paint on huge pallets and then lift and float to add to the beauty. Sometimes I can actually see the paintings in progress. Other times I only see paintbrushes…..
Jerry's -- 14/06/2010
Sunset Paintings by Wilson Bickford
love to paint sunsets! I could paint nothing BUT sunsets and never be bored with it. It’s the strong value contrasts of the light and silhouetted darks that really grab me! “FIRE IN THE SKY” is on a 12″ x 16″ panel and was painted wet-in-wet using Jerry’s own SOHO Oils. I like the interplay…..