Practices for Painting
The choices you make of painting materials and techniques have consequences for the longevity of your work. The online courses are for anyone who wants to create paintings that last. We present the latest understanding of these materials and techniques from conservation and materials research that help you make the best choices.
Painting Best Practices is an information-packed online curriculum that includes all aspects of painting from the support and ground to the final layers and varnish. Practical procedures are clearly explained and demonstrated on how to build paintings based on scientific research. The courses are designed for painters of all mediums with special emphasis on the most popular painting mediums.
Learn how materials are best used in painting and when to use them properly in your artwork.
Use the best practices in your work to make long lasting paintings.
Develop the confidence to use the right materials for each project—eliminate guesses.
Research reveals cadmium and talc in pigments sold as natural earths. Learn what earth pigment adulteration looks like and how to protect your work.
The traditional water gilding gesso recipe with measured PVC, glue ratios, and layer counts for hard and soft coats. What the science actually says.
New research shows your pigment to oil ratio shapes how oil paint ages — and that zinc white behaves unlike any other pigment tested.
Vermeer’s underpainting was fast, coarse, drier-rich, and textured on purpose. New National Gallery imaging shows how his layered structure built his calm surfaces.
Practice
Makes PerfectWe know about your hectic schedule. We also know the only way you truly understand a subject is by practicing it in a real environment. This is why we’ve set an area that’s full of hours of exercises, questions and challenges.
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Each online course gives you the needed information to make the best choices of materials and techniques. After completing the courses you will have confidence to complete a painting knowing you’ve done it correctly.
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