Posts by Nicholas Wilton

I’ve been using this new method for mixing color and I wanted to share it with all of you. It’s really helped me determine the color choices for my pieces. Watch the video and let me know what you think – how do you decide which colors to use in your paintings? In gratitude, Nicholas…

I was recently commissioned to do a painting. Now, commissions bring a particular set of challenges to the table, but in the case of this most recent painting, there was an additional caveat: the client wanted the piece to look like an older painting of mine. Of course, I don’t want to just make a…

Oil paint has always been a part of my practice, but recently I’ve been using drawing materials as well. The combination of these two mediums has led my work in some exciting new directions, and as such I thought I would take a moment to share what I use. Watch the video and let me…

Often times inviting change into one’s work is a deliberate process. Case in point is my current body of work: lately I’ve found that I am creating pieces that look too familiar to what came before, and as a whole they lack a certain freshness or spontaneity that is crucial to my practice. So, the…

I just moved, and in the process of going through all my things I came across an old painting of mine. I remember after completing the piece I thought it was quite good – I liked the composition, the colors, the brush strokes – I was very pleased with what I had made. But after…

I recently started 2 new pieces and for a moment I had a bit of anxiety, trying to figure out where to begin! And then I remembered the secret to getting started. Watch the video and share your thoughts and comments. What is the first thing you do when you have a new piece?