This course provides artists with practical and safer methods to clean their own paintings than what is currently practiced by artists. The cleaning methods demonstrated in this course apply specifically to oil paintings, but the techniques and materials can also be used with additional precautions on gouache and tempera paintings.

Glazing is more than applying transparent color over dry paint. This session explains how Old Master glazes function as optical systems, why pigment transparency, particle size, refractive index, layer thickness, and surface gloss matter, and how contemporary painters can use glazing more deliberately without relying on myths about secret mediums.

In the webinar we examine the causes of sinking. We discuss the common practice of “oiling out” (or sometimes “oiling in”), and its disadvantages. The webinar presents the best practices to correct irregular sheen, how to select and apply varnish, and get the best results in your art.

Western art has had no greater influence than that of the Old Masters. We admire their luminous and harmonious colors. Where did the colors come from? How did they achieve the glowing pictures we admire so well? George O'Hanlon, technical director of Natural Pigments, will show us the origin of the pigments and how the Old Masters used them in their masterpieces.

Painting Best Practices Webinar shows why paintings fail and recommend best supports, grounds and techniques so you can make technically-sound paintings.

In this Studio Tips we show you how to prepare panels for the painting the right way. We show how to apply traditional chalk ground on wood, an oil ground on wood and an alkyd ground on aluminum composite material (ACM) panel.