materials oil texture • form

Oil hub — depth, edges, and luminous color

Practice composition and edges in landscape, structure in portraits, and confident paint handling with texture studies.

Oil paints
Home › Materials › Painting · Oil

Pick a track

Start anywhere, learn something new, and become inspired.

Oil landscape scene
Oil landscapes
 Oil portrait close-up
Oil portraits
 Palette knife textures
Creating textures in oil

Paint & surface

  • Limited palette (Titanium White, Ivory Black, Yellow Ochre, Ultramarine, Alizarin) to start.
  • Gessoed panel or canvas; bristle & soft synthetics mix.

Mediums & workflow

  • Lean → fat layering; odorless mineral spirits + small amount of medium.
  • Block big shapes, refine edges, reserve accents for last.

Level up

Paint blending

Learn about blending using paints.

Open tutorial

Find Inspiration

Find a challenge, prompt, or theme to try out!

Find another challenge

Submit to gallery

Share your best oil painting, project or work with the community.

Submit your work