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Oil Painting…Getting Started With Oil Painting Essentials
A great way to get started with oil painting, is to get a beginner’s Oil Painting Set. They can be purchased at online retailers, or you can usually find one at your local art supply store. My choice of one of the brands that offers these kits is the ones made by Windsor & Newton.
Oil Color Painting Set ~ $32.09 BUY NOW!
This set contains the following materials: (8 Tubes of Oil Paint – 2 Brushes – Oil Painting Medium & Instructional leaflet)
7 Winton Oils in 8 ml (.3 oz) tubes, including one each of Lemon Yellow Hue, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, French Ultramarine, Light Red, Viridian Hue, Yellow Ochre, and Burnt Umber.
- 21 ml (.7 oz) tube of Titanium White
- 75 ml (2.5 oz) bottle of Sansodor
- 2 Winton hog bristle brushes
- Instructional leaflet
A great gift for the beginning artist!
This set contains the following materials: (9 Tubes of Oil Paint – 2 Brushes – Oil Painting Medium – Color Chart & Painting Guide)
8 Winton Oils in 21 ml (.7 oz) tubes, including one each of Cadmium Yellow Pale Hue, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, French Ultramarine, Phthalo Blue, Viridian Hue, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, and Burnt Umber
- 60 ml (2 oz) tube of Titanium White
- 75 ml (2.5 oz) glass bottle of Liquin
- 2 hog bristle brushes
- Color chart
- Step-by-step guide to painting a landscape
Once you determine whether oil painting is something you really like and want to invest in, Winsor & Newton has other oil painting sets that include larger size tubes. These sets offer a few different color combinations chosen from the 49 colors that they offer. I tried a few of their sets and became familiar with the basic group of colors, and then the ones that are most-often chosen. I then added a few new colors at a time, which gave me an opportunity to really try out each color, as well as to learn how to mix my oil paints from a smaller selection of base colors. It was exciting each time I tried out a newcolor, and saw how it could enhance my my painting by giving me a wider selection of colors on my palette to choose from.
Winsor & Newton paints come in two grades of oil paint colors for different skill levels. The ‘Winton’ line for students & beginners, includes a selection of the most used oil colors made from good-quality moderately priced pigments, and work well for artists who want to try oil painting without a big commitment in cost. The Winsor & Newton ‘Artist Oil Colors’ line is a better-quality pigment, made for accomplished or professional artists. They offer superior oil painting pigments at competitive prices.
Click here to view Winsor & Newton ‘Winton‘ colors or the Winsor & Newton ‘Artist OIl Colors’ replacement Oil Colors and open stock.
Here is a list of things you will also need to get started:
- Turpentine – for washing brushes and thinning paint
- Oil Painting brushes – in various sizes and bristle types for different painting effects
- Canvas – painting surface
- Palette – for placing and mixing colors
- Easel – or suitable stand to ‘mount’ your canvas in an upright position while you paint