How Do I Get Started in Oil Painting?

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This time, I'm answering a question from an artist who wants to get started in oil painting.

I recommended Carol Marine's book DAILY PAINTING:
https://bookshop.org/books/daily-pain...

and I recommend that you check out Michael Chamberlain:
   / chamberlainpaintings  

and Qiang Huang:
http://www.qh-art.com/online-teaching...

For a beginner palette, I would start by making monochromatic paintings using only Transparent Red Earth.

A minimal, starter palette would be:
Cadmium Red Light
Yellow Ochre
White
Payne's Grey
This is called the Zorn Palette, and you'll be amazed at all the colors you can mix with just those four!

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