Painting is indeed one of the most passionate professions. While taking it up as a full time profession, most of the artists face a crucial question about which type of paint they must use for painting. There are a wide variety of options available such as water colors, oil paintings, acrylics, and pastels. This article [...]

The beauty of giving oil painting as a gift is that there are so many options for variations in taste. It comes in variable sizes and of course colors and subjects. Oil painting comes in many variations but unless you are willing to spend a fortune on expensive originals, your best alternative is a hand [...]

Many great teachers are the model for skilled artists is set to re-create styles, bright colors, and rich texture of the surface to give the world some of the best reproductions of painting. With the availability of reproductions of oil painting, dreams of the people, possess the priceless masterpieces by Rembrandt, Monet, or any other [...]

Buying an oil paint set is a great way to get some of the tools you need. If you find that you enjoy oil painting, you will add to this small collection as time goes on, but getting supplies is often cheaper when you buy them in sets. Art can be created with a lot [...]

So you finally painted an oil painting you are proud enough to display or bought an oil painting that you fell in love with. Before you hang that painting up or even put it in storage here are tips about hanging, storing, cleaning and moving your oil painting. Before you hang your painting remember that [...]

Oil paintings are a great long-term investment and the versatility of the medium allows artists to create a limitless variety of images. There are many places that sell art, so you can have plenty of fun exploring different avenues. You might consider a trip to a local art gallery when they are having a particular [...]

Oil painting was once associated only with professionals, as ready made oil paints weren’t available. The basic pigments had to be purchased, ground to a powder and then mixed with oils. With the arrival of oil paints around 150 years ago, the technique that commanded the highest praise was ready to be sampled by amateurs [...]

There are various kinds of paintings. There are different strategies and styles that painters used to communicate what they want to the spectators. Probably the most generally used is Abstract. Many cannot appreciate this type of painting because they merely can’t appreciate the splashes of colours and different strokes the painter has created. However when [...]

Oil Paintings are the stuffs of a certain time and certain set, and art history of course tries to place these works in their superior setting. Any body learning western art, for instance, would study to be familiar with the styles of the Oil painting reproduction, Baroque, traditional, idealistic and Modern periods, and to know [...]