Watch, and paint along with me :) Learn how to make an oil painting portrait of a baby step-by-step. Get to know the tips and tricks as to how to make a good quality painting.

Oil painting is an interesting creative activity. This is something most of us already know. However, there's much more to oil painting than just creativity. With the methods and techniques, one not only learns how to paint, but also excels in creating a structure, understand proportions, understand depth - dark vs. light, near vs. far and such.

This learning not only builds patience and perseverance, but also flows through into the other aspects of life, bringing in peace and confidence in whatever task that you set your mind into.

Portrait of a baby, is an excellent choice because children are completely unaware of the camera and tend to give innocent and direct expressions. These are hard to capture in a painting and that's what we strive for!

Materials Required:

1. Belluno Oliefarve (or any oil colors) 12×12 ml 1 pack & linseed oil used for oil painting – 1 bottle

2. Hog hair brushes – 1 set

3. soft synthetic brushes for Oil /Acrylic – 1 set

4. wooden /metal /glass palette or plate – 1 (Avoid plastic palette)

5. small metal lid or candle stand to pour oil – 1

6. 1 small bottle of dishwashing liquid for cleaning brushes

7. 1 cleaning cloth

8. 2- earbuds & 1 – toothpick

9. 1 Paper towel

10. 1 glass medium-sized jar (any used jar f.eks. marmalade jar)

11. 40 x 40 cm canvas framed on wood

12. small magnifying glass

13. 1 drawing pencil

14. Eraser

15. 1 – drawing paper (if needed for practice)

Link to the picture of the baby is provided as a reference material in each of the lessons.