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Oil painting itself dates back to early times in Europe. It was discovered inside caves where men mixed together soot, soil and animal fats to produce the earliest oil paints. These were therefore used to create their imagery on the actual cave walls.

Later it was revealed that, if oils were taken from nuts plus linseed and were mixed along with pigment, it would make up bright oily colours. The beauty of oils is the fact that, if you do make errors on your canvas, you can get the colour off if you dip a piece of rag in turpentine and just wipe it off.

Therefore, what do you in actual fact need? First of all, I would advise you to wear a big apron, or some kind of overall, before you start to paint. A palette knife along with a palette. The knife you will discover very handy to move oil on to your picture, but you can what’s more move the paint about with this.

Now, if you can manage to pay for an easel this will be an advantage and there are a number of types to select from. Old jam jars can be used for washing out your brushes or solvents. Old pieces of rag, or dippers as well, are somewhat a good idea as they can be clipped on to the edge of your palette to contain solvent as well as painting mediums.

Solvents, such as distilled turpentine and white spirit, for thinning oil colours and also for cleaning your equipment and brushes, can be used to great effect. Charcoal too is handy for outlining the subject that you wish to paint. As for your basic palette, colours I have listed here are a general sort of palette which, of course, you can always add to.

Cadium lemon, yellow and red, raw umber, titanium white, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, viridian hue, french ultramarine, pthalo blue, permanent alizarin crimson, and permanent rose.

Then, besides paper or a canvas, you can put oil paint on glass, hardboard, walls, wooden furniture and plaster if you prepare it first and use a primer.

Going to brushes, fine hog brushes are probably the best choice as they retain their shape and are pretty good for fine detailing in your work. As for brush types, a large or medium sized flat brush works well. A medium no. 6, or a large no. 10 or 12.

These are good when you need to paint on large areas of colour. If you then want to do thinner, narrow lines you can bring into play the tip of your brush.Excellent too for blending your colour around your canvas.

Now for scumbling or dabbing on small patches of colour. You could use a medium sized round no. 6 brush, which would work well too for putting on broad areas of colour. For very fine details, and even highlighting, you could try a no. 2 small sized round brush.

If you want to sketch outdoors, canvas boards are good, quite strong, and, I would say, are more portable as they take up less space. Stretched canvases are probably the most used, but you can even make these yourself.

The other choice of surface left to you is oil colour paper which has a textured surface, but can be used for oils or acrylics.

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Most people have a need for help at certain stages of their lives. For example:

- Are you over-stressed from the fast paced world we live in today ?

- Could you use some help in trying to cope with an emotional crisis ?

- Do you feel that you have been abandoned, and a sense of loss ?

- Are you hostile towards yourself or others ? Do you get angry or violent ?

- Does fear and anxiety dominate your everyday life and thoughts, and prevent you from being what you want to be or do ?

- Is there a situation in your life that you feel is just too complicated to try and sort out on your own ?

- Have you been hurt by a breakdown of communications in a relationship ?

- Do you feel that you are in a downward cycle of depression that you are unable to break free of ?

- Would you like to discover a different way of expressing your thoughts, emotions and behaviour ?

- Would it help if someone just listened to you, empathised with you, and tried to understand things from your point of view ?

Many people would be able to answer “Yes” to at least some of the above. Other issues might also come to light from the above examples that could also be discussed and resolved. By being neutral, independant and non-judgemental, a counsellor can help by providing an ideal forum for these issues to be discussed and resolved in comfort, and in confidence.

Most genuine counsellors will be prepared to provide your initial consultation for no charge, giving you the chance to evaluate the potential benefits of counselling at no cost, or with no commitment to continue on your part.

Why not take the first step towards a possible solution to your problem(s), by getting in touch with a qualified, experienced counsellor today ?

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