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title: Painting (Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor)
description: This topic covers the application of oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints. Learners will understand the unique properties of each medium, color mixing principles, brushwork techniques, and how to prepare different surfaces for painting.
category: arts-design
subcategory: painting
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/painting-(oil,-acrylic,-watercolor)
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# Painting (Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor)

This topic covers the application of oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints. Learners will understand the unique properties of each medium, color mixing principles, brushwork techniques, and how to prepare different surfaces for painting.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 2 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Will Kemp Art School

Structured free tutorials and paid courses from a professional artist and teacher, covering acrylics, oils and drawing: colour mixing, limited palettes, tonal underpainting and brushwork. Step-by-step demonstrations supply reference images so beginners can complete finished paintings.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://willkempartschool.com/

**Tags:** painting, acrylic-painting, oil-painting, color-mixing, tutorials

### 2. wetcanvas.com

WetCanvas is a long-standing online artist community focused on painting techniques. It offers forums, step-by-step tutorials and demonstrations, reference photos, and user galleries where painters share process, seek critiques, and discuss materials across watercolor, acrylic, oils, and other media.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://wetcanvas.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts

## Podcasts

### 1. The Jealous Curator

**Author:** The Jealous Curator

ART FOR YOUR EAR brings you stories from some of my favorite contemporary artists. When I studied Art History, the best part was, well, the gossip. I loved finding out why artists did certain things, what was going on in their personal lives, and behind-the-scenes details about other artists they knew and worked with. This podcast is exactly that ... inside-scoop stories from the artsiest people I know. You'll hear first-hand from these talented, successful, full-time artists (who also happen to be regular people with hilarious stories) BEFORE they’re in the Art History books. - Danielle (aka The Jealous Curator)

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://thejealouscurator.libsyn.com/podcast

**Tags:** art-podcast, contemporary-art, artist-interviews, creative-practice, visual-arts

## Books

### 1. Watercolor Painting: A Comprehensive Approach

**Author:** Tom Hoffmann

Hoffmann breaks watercolor into four decisions — value, color, wetness, and composition — and works through paintings showing how each choice is made. You come away able to analyze a subject and plan a painting before touching paper.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0823006735?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, visual-arts

### 2. Acrylic Revolution

**Author:** Nancy Reyner

Over one hundred acrylic techniques demonstrated step by step: surface preparation, texture, transfers and collage, altering paint body and drying time, faux finishes, and imitating oil or watercolor effects. Reyner shows what each medium and additive actually does.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1581808046?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, visual-arts

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