A step-by-step recreation of Veronese’s Dream of Saint Helena using Renaissance Venetian painting methods - from underpainting to glazing - exploring how Veronese achieved his luminous colour and depth.

Learn how to paint like the Venetian Renaissance masters. This guide covers the traditional Venetian oil painting method - composition sketches, underpainting, and glazing - to help you achieve that luminous, old-master glow in your own work.

In this post, I share my process step by step - what materials I used, what I learned, and why this centuries old exercise still feels so alive in the studio today.

Discover how I’m recreating Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People using classical oil painting techniques, from raw umber underpainting to layered glazing. In this behind-the-scenes master copy session, I break down my palette, process, and colour decisions and share how you can learn these traditional methods in your own work.

Learn how to oil paint using the classical glazing technique, starting from a bistre underpainting and building luminous colour through transparent layers. This step-by-step guide breaks down the entire process and explains why glazing creates depth and glow that alla prima painting can’t match.