Oil paint is wonderfully versatile. It can be applied in thick, expressive impastos, or thinned down and used almost like watercolours. It can be brushed or scrubbed, knifed on or scratched out, ...

Do expensive oil paints actually make better art,or is it all marketing? In this experiment, a fine artist compares cheap and ...

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Buck finishes painting Farewell To Today using oil paint. Buck continues his work on Farewell To Today, using walnut oil and vibrant oil paints to bring this landscape to life. Painting with Paulson ...

Whether you love or hate painting, there are some key dos and don'ts we all need to adhere to if we want the best results at the end. Knowing how long to wait before applying a second coat is one such ...

Last week's column was actually begun as a general investigation of oil painting; I got side-tracked onto the subject of flax by a chance reference, in my encyclopedia, to the fact that South Dakota ...

The 15th century represents an important transition in art history, as oil paints gradually replaced egg-based tempera paints as the painting medium of choice. During the transition period, artists ...