Video: Oil Painting: Paper Towels

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Paper towels work great for removing damaging and unwanted oil paints from portraits. Learn more about using paper towels when oil painting from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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I might have forgotten to mention, but we're going to need some paper towels for this too, and you generally want to wear something that you don't mind messing up. If you do get paint on you and it's oil or acrylic, first thing you want to do is get that part of the clothing wet and wash it immediately, otherwise it could set up and the paint will be there forever. So, I folded up one paper towel that I'm going to use to clean my brush, and the other paper towel is just to remove paint that I don't want there. So, we have done the tracing and there it is. It looks quite light, but it's dark enough for me to use. The first thing we're going to start with is the eyes. The reason for that is that when I start painting all of the painting, without the eyes it looks rather strange, so I'm going to paint the eyes first. And the pupil of the eye is going to be painted black, so I'm going to use my small, fine brush and paint the inside pupil.

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Oil Painting: Paper Towels

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