Masterclass

All Acrylic Calligraphy Mediums Mixing Oil Priming Watercolour

Watercolour Blending Medium

Watch how Winsor & Newton Watercolour Blending Medium helps to achieve seamless blends and transforms your painting process.

Glazing in oils

Learn how to add luminosity to your oil paintings by glazing. This masterclass demonstrates how to mix and apply Blending and Glazing Medium to unify dark and light areas.

How to use Liquin Mediums

Discover how five different Liquin mediums—Original, Fine Detail, Light Gel, Impasto, and Oleopasto—each have unique qualities that help speed up the drying time of oil paint.

Understanding black oil paint

Exploring the unique qualities of the five blacks in Winsor & Newton’s Artists’ Oil Colour, we examine Ivory, Lamp, Mars, Perylene and Blue Blacks. Ivory and Lamp Blacks are carbon-based...

Opaque and transparent pigments in oil painting

This masterclass demonstrates the differences between opaque and transparent oil colours, using a palette of primaries that includes an example of each. The colours used are Cadmium Yellow, Transparent Yellow,...

Fat over lean rule explained

The fat over lean rule is a critical method of working to ensure your painting stands the test of time. This requires that each successive layer has slightly more oil,...

White, clear and tinted techniques with Acrylic Gesso

To prevent your oil paint from sinking into the support, you should always prime your canvas; here we will demonstrate using white, clear and tinted gesso to prepare a canvas....