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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Painting on glass is an artistic pursuit that yields beautiful results — but only if you have the right materials. Available in acrylic, enamel, and oil formulations, the best paints for glass ...

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 ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...