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Steps to start an oil painting

4/14/2021

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1.  Cover your blank canvas with a mixture of gray acrylic - Titanium White and Mars Black.  
2.  Add your basic shapes and values in acrylic "underpainting" at this stage.  NO DETAILS!
3.  When the acrylic is dry, "Glaze" your canvas in a thin, transparent coat of oil color (anything on our palette except for Zinc White or Yellow Ochre - both are opaque).

4.  Add more layers of oil paint progressing from thin to thicker layers.

​*NOTE:  If you want to paint over an oil painting because you are not crazy about it anymore (I've done this many times) - NEVER paint acrylic over oil. The painting will peel.   You must cover your unwanted oil painting with oil paint.  If it is easier for you to obliterate it with a layer of gray - do it in oil.  I happen to love painting the new painting right over the one I don't love anymore with color - going right for the shapes and spaces in oil.  You can paint oil over acrylic - but never acrylic over oil.  
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