How to paint with oils

Oils are generally painted onto canvas or panel boards which are tough and primed with a white gesso compound. If the money is tight you can get away with painting onto the rough side of hardboard primed with gesso. I think the best oil painting Brushes to go for are Hog hair brushes, they are good to work with as they hold paint better and are flexible and springy enough for oil paint application. You can paint a successful picture with just one brush but it is far easier to use a brush that best does the work for you like a large round brush for a large area of sky and a small brush for say, telegraph wires or a lampost.
 

As with all other mediums the techniques are similar but achieved in different ways. In oils we obviously use brushes to apply the paint onto canvas and it is how we apply paint as to the effect we want. Painting mediums are used to thin the paint down so you achieve a thinner paint, you don't want thick paint everywhere in your painting so painting mediums help us to thin the paint down ending up with a translucent quality and contrasted against thicker paint greatly improves our painting. Painting mediums also help in the drying of oil paints so we don't have to wait days for oils to dry. painting mediums also retains the oil painting medium on the painting rather than disipitate when using turpentine.
 

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