Oil Painting, Top 10 beginner tips

So why oil painting ? Well, lets talk a little on that before getting into the beginner tips.

For most artists’, today’s choice still seems to be oil paints. Just a few reasons to this are:

•The colors are gorgeous
•You can paint just about anything with them.
•Their slow drying allows for several things. The ability to remove what you don’t like. A superior ability to blend.
•When it does dry, (which can be sped up) you can paint over it without undue stresses to the paint film.
•You can paint impasto, or with thin glazes.
•Paint can be opaque, or transparent, which gives you a whole arsenal of techniques to apply it.