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Tricks on Oil Painting Palette

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These are more oil painting palette tips you can implement whilst handling oil paints.

The purpose of arranging the colors on your palette in a systematic way is to save you time.

There should be no fumbling around your palette to find a color, for all your attention should be concentrated on painting the subject before you.

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Painting VS Sculpture

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There is centuries debate went on over which was a “nobler” art: painting or sculpture?

The painters said they had to invent everything and the sculptor practically nothing. His material, stone, was already a finished work of nature—beautiful, imposing. Someone pretty sophistically even said the only thing the sculptor had to do was remove the stone from a figure that was already in the block.

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The Three Dimensional Impasto

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What is Impasto?

The ‘Impasto’ refers to a painting technique, in which thick textured paint is applied on canvas to get a three dimensional appearance of the picture being created.

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