Painting Best Practices Webinar

Description

Painting Best Practices webinar is based on the successful Painting Best Practices workshop developed by Natural Pigments and taught to hundreds of painters worldwide. The webinar provides skills taught in the workshop in a convenient and affordable format. The webinar extends the information in the workshop by giving artists opportunities to learn advanced skills through video courses available on this website.

For over a hundred years, most causes of paint failures have been studied: humidity, temperature, and paint embrittlement. The symptoms were obvious—cracking, delaminating, and paint loss—but the causes were not. Conservation workers gradually formed concepts about the causes of cracking and paint loss of old paintings. Concurrently, the coatings industry studied failures in all types of paint films. Artists developed their own ideas but remained largely unaware of findings from both the conservation community and the coatings industry.

Natural Pigments spent years preparing a workshop to teach skills that are not taught in art schools and universities. We provide an understanding of artist’s materials and tools, what they are designed to do, and how to provide longevity to your finished work. This workshop covers the most important aspects of painting that have proven to be the best practices over the centuries.

After teaching the workshop to hundreds of students worldwide, we created a webinar featuring all of the information from the workshop. The webinar includes all aspects of constructing a painting, from the support and ground to the final layers. We explain practical procedures and demonstrate how to build your paintings based on conservation research. This webinar is designed for painters of all mediums but with a special emphasis on oil painting.

Enroll in the Painting Best Practices Webinar today to enjoy the special features of this recording of the live webinar where instructors and fellow artists interact.

Webinar with Demonstrations

The webinar begins with a review of the leading causes of cracking and paint loss in paintings. In view of the research, we review different types of painting supports to help you choose the best one for your technique. What are the most suitable grounds for each type of support? What factors influence the embrittlement of the paint film, and what artists can do to prolong its life? You receive clear recommendations of supports, grounds, and painting techniques that help you make technically sound paintings.

The webinar is structured into six lessons. Each lesson is three hours long, followed by one hour of questions and answer sessions by participants of the live webinar recorded in 2022. The paint-making lesson is a demonstration you can follow in your studio.