PRACTICAL OILS
Paul Talbot-Greaves
teaches watercolour and acrylic painting in workshops and demonstrations to art societies throughout the UK. He has received many accolades and awards including The Artist Award in 2017 and 2021 at Patchings Art Festival, and The Chaoshan Watercolour Award at the 2021 RI watercolour exhibition.
He can be contacted by email ptgart@outlook.com or through his website www.talbot-greaves.com
As a painter working with watercolour, acrylic, and oil, I'm fully aware of the individual characteristics that each of these disciplines brings. For me, the overriding quality of oil is in generating softness in shapes and edges. Although we are able to focus on the world around us, it is never pin sharp from our feet to the horizon. There is always a slight blurring of edges even though we don't notice, and oil is natural at replicating that. The way the paint staysto make soft blends, allowing you to move it about long after the painting has begun, which is unique. There are many different approaches to oil painting but as I am an impatient painter, the or all-inone method suits me just fine, and that is the topic of my discussion here.
