From the Van Eyck brothers’ early fifteenth century breathtaking masterpiece, the Ghent altarpiece, up through to the exquisite late nineteenth century salon paintings of Adolphe-William Bouguereau, oil painting followed a relatively uniform pattern of study and execution. It was a time-consuming procedure (DaVinci reportedly took five years to complete the Mona Lisa) in which the artist, after years of apprenticeship and practice, was finally ready to begin meticulously planning and constructing his own laborious artworks. However, many elements of this style (grisaille underpainting, glazing, dry brush blending and scumbling) are strategies that when integrated into modern art techniques can add interest and beauty, as well as recreate the classical art aesthetic. Paul will present some of these classical techniques using modern materials in order to interest others to delve into this art form, or to simply develop a greater appreciation of the “Old Masters.”