{"id":622,"date":"2020-11-07T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T17:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.1wp.site\/en\/?p=622"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:52:38","slug":"confused-about-oil-painting-materials-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/confused-about-oil-painting-materials-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused about Oil Painting Materials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-6ccca62b\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/paint-tubes-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-621\" width=\"446\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/paint-tubes-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/paint-tubes-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/paint-tubes-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/paint-tubes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/paint-tubes-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/paint-tubes.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember wandering around through the isles of art supply stores, bewildered, not really knowing what I needed, and bought stuff that did not do what I expected or that I ended up never using \u2013 sounds familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After years of striving to understand what all of these different bottles, tubes and brushes were for, I ended up creating an&nbsp;<strong>oil painting course for beginners<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 the course that I wanted to take when I was starting out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am presently working hard to make this course&nbsp;<strong>available online very soon<\/strong>. These are just some of the questions I\u2019ll be tackling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What is gesso and why would I need it?<\/li><li>When would I use underpainting? (what\u2019s underpainting?!)<\/li><li>What is the best way to transfer my drawing?<\/li><li>Is oil painting dangerous\/toxic?<\/li><li>What\u2019s the difference between Student grade and Artist grade oil paints?<\/li><li>Why are some paint tubes so much more expensive than others?<\/li><li>Why shouldn\u2019t linseed oil be used straight from the bottle?<\/li><li>What\u2019s different about alkyd painting mediums like Liquin?<\/li><li>Why do some colors on a painting sometimes become chalky and dull?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If these questions resonate with you and you think learning the basics would be of great help, then this course is for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end, you\u2019ll have a good understanding of oil painting materials and how to properly use them \u2013 from how to choose and prepare your surfaces, to understanding the mysteries of painting mediums, to how to varnish your paintings. A lot of useful information and suggestions which will help you make clear choices, not only in your purchases, but in your creativity as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/theoilpaintinghub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Subcribe to my newsletter<\/strong><\/a> to stay in the loop!<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"622\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember wandering around through the isles of art supply stores, bewildered, not really knowing what I needed, and bought stuff that did not do what I expected or that I ended up never using \u2013 sounds familiar? After years of striving to understand what all of these different bottles, tubes and brushes were for, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Confused about Oil Painting Materials?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/confused-about-oil-painting-materials-2\/#more-622\" aria-label=\"Read more about Confused about Oil Painting Materials?\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"3","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_mo_disable_npp":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-courses","category-news","resize-featured-image"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"My Courses"},{"value":6,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/paint-tubes-1024x768.jpg",1024,768,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Isabelle Larin","author_link":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/author\/isabelle\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"My Courses","slug":"my-courses","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"My courses...","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":3,"category_description":"My courses...","cat_name":"My Courses","category_nicename":"my-courses","category_parent":0},{"term_id":6,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":6,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":6,"category_count":5,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabellelarin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}