id like to see some oil painting tutorials on this site. does any body agree, disagree? what you think?

Sounds good to me! although i've used oils for many years, i don't think i've ever had any kind of instruction on oils so it would be nice to learn a bit about i!!

Hi

Brenda is working on that....

http://www.drawspace.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3566

ihi.

i'm just starting out on an online WC course. i used to do it about twenty years ago. this time i've decided that learning to draw first would be good idea. i'll let you all know how i'm getting on.

paul.

thanks for your reply, good to see other people feel the same as me

good idea...i like oil painting very much i want to learn it too

Since I love painting, I would love to see a part of this site for painting as well as keeping the drawing!

I also agree with all of you, oil painting is fun. I too would like to learn various techniques and tools used in it.

i recently bought a small oil set and paint a small canvas. i felt so dumb when i realized water won't remove the oil paint from my brush. i ruined a $25 brush.
SO YEAH I WOULD LOVE TO READ SOME TIPS AND STUFF. GUESS I SHOULD CLICK ON THAT LINK SOMEONE POSTED EARLIER. OH YEAH I NEVER KNEW OIL PAINTS TAKE FOREVER TO DRY.. .BUT THEY'RE SO AWESOME, I LOVE BLENDING COLORS.

i m so special in oil painting

Providing you haven't done anything terrible to it, or thrown it away, you haven't ruined your brush.

Coat the brush in hand-soap, and leave it for an hour or two. Massage it, rinse, and repeat. 3 or 4 cycles should soften and remove even old well-dried oil-paint. I have resuscitated brushes totally solid with 20-year old paint (from someone else!) by doing this.

Dave

I'd also add that I'd be happy to contribute occasional tutorials on oilpainting.

Wow that would be so good do let me also know in advance.... and thanks for sharing a useful tip, will it work for brushes that have become hard due to some other reason like, old fabric paint or some other thing?

Depends what the binder is. Soap will loosen most types of paint, given long enough. If the binder is acrylic, it will soften in alcohol (meths/denatured). Again, you can soften just about any sort of paint by a pretreatment with a brush-restorer or paint-stripper, just to soften the paint, and then following up with soap to finish the job rather than subjecting the brush to restorer/stripper for an extended period.

oh that would be wonderful I'd really like that Dave

I would also like to see some tutorials on oil painting from beginer to advanced.