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How to paint in the renaissance style, with actual paint

You can be the next Vermeer! OK, haha, no. But this is fine.

Rob Beschizza
Oct 31, 2024
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Screenshot: Howard Lyon / YouTube

It's sensible to follow Howard Lyon's methodical guide to painting in a renaissance style without using actual oil paints, but as someone who learned with oils back in the day I would like you to suffer as I once did, and spend at least two weeks just getting through the tutorial. Here's method made simple and explicit a…

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