Oil Painting Glazing Techniques - How To Glaze With Oil Paint

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In this post, we will discuss the oil painting technique called “Glazing”. Included below are several videos as well as step by step tutorials and lessons from around the Web, that discuss and demonstrate the Glazing technique.

Glazing is the process of applying a thin layer of translucent or transparent oil paint over a dry opaque layer of oil paint, which creates an effect unlike any other.

Light travels through the transparent or translucent layer of oil paint and bounces off the opaque layer creating a sort of glowing effect that is very difficult to create with other oil painting techniques.

The effect is known as “Optical Color Mixing”. Colors are not mixed together physically on a palette or canvas, but are instead mixed optically through the various layers of glazes.

Learn all about this oil painting technique through the various videos and tutorials that I have collected below. Enjoy!

Oil Painting Glazing Video Tutorials

Glazing : Oil painting techniques – step by step demonstration

Glazing : Oil painting techniques – step by step demonstration
By
Florent Farges – arts

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HI everyone, pretty excited for this video as a lot of people asked me questions about glazing. I had a hard time finding good glazing footage on one of my actual painting and it was not really satisfying for the video so I decided to paint a little sketch instead. It’s not as nice but at least I really get to show you what glazing can do and play around with it. Hopefully you can learn something out of it !

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Glazing: Painting as the Old Masters Painted

Glazing: Painting as the Old Masters Painted
By Stefan Baumann

In this Video Baumann talks about glazing with oils on paintings to bring out true color. He also talks about how oil paint are made, the difference of acrylic paint, and why oil painting is preferred. Plein Air master painter and PBS artist Stefan Baumann host of “The Grand View” America’s National Parks” travels the American landscape painting outdoor painting in oil. Art investors who love collecting western, still life, and flower paintings love his work and he has been collected by noted American’s such as the Anninburgs, Morgans, Rockfellers, and former President Regan and is collected by top fortune 500 corporations. His work is listed among the top artists of American History such as Moran, Bierstadt, Sargent, Payne, Hulings, Schmid, gallery. He can be seen painting by his RV motor home in Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon in DVD’s showing How to paint, artists workshops, fine art, classes at Medford, OR, Redding, Mt Shasta, San Jose, CA. Airstream, camping, RV, touring, realist, ALLA PRIMA, internationally famous. Native American, Southwest West,” For a free book on painting go to www.StefanBaumann.com. Visit Stefan’s YouTube Channel here.

Glazing Demo

Glazing Demo
By Marc Dalessio

Glazing plein air landscape paintings. This is one of the demos I do on my plein air landscape courses. The medium I can be acquired in the US from Blue Ridge oil colors (De Mayerne medium) or from Zecchi in Florence (Antichi maestri). My ‘Minute Painting Video #3’ also has the recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCvvU… I edited the audio in a couple of places as I misspoke during the demo (oil paint expands, not contracts and Boschini, not Vasari, wrote about Titian). Visit the artist’s youtube channel here.