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

Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures

c. 1785

Hung Liu, Resident Alien

1988

Edward Burne-Jones, The Beguiling of Merlin

1873–77

Bronzino, Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus

c. 1537–39

Jan van Eyck, Lucca Madonna

c. 1437

William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858

1858–60

Hughie Lee-Smith, The Walls

1954

Archibald John Motley Jr., Bronzeville at Night

1949

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