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Tips for Maintaining Good Oil Painting Habits

Following are the tips for you to maintain good oil painting habits: Tips for saving color: • Clean away any mixtures near heaps of colors you are setting up to keep. • Keep a habit to put colors in same place on palette – used up areas must be worn out & wiped for new oil paint for next painting session. • For disposable palettes scoop off mounds of paint you desire to maintain with your knife and move them to a fresh sheet; if a skin shapes, stab and take away the skin and work with the new color under. • If you are not regular on painting for a week – cover palette with plastic cover & place…

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