Oil paint

A slow-drying paint made by grinding pigments into suspension in a drying oil such as linseed oil.

Basics Works of Art

Oil paint

A slow-drying paint made by grinding pigments into suspension in a drying oil such as linseed oil.

Basics Works of Art

Basics to get you started

Oil paint in Venice

Art terms in action: viscosity

Art terms in action: paint

Art terms in action: emulsion

Chiaroscuro explained

Works of Art

Nicolas Poussin, The Holy Family on the Steps

1648

Billy “War Soldier” Soza, The Wind Only I Am Afraid Of

1969

Rita Letendre, Menace (Ramat Gan)

1963

Lloyd Kiva New, Untitled (Landscape)

c. 1980

Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of the Lavoisiers

1788

Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego

1637–38

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Portrait of the Painter Franz Pforr

1810

Lavinia Fontana, Judith with the Head of Holofernes

c. 1600

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