Oil Painting, its name clearly tells that painting done with oil colors. Oil Painting process contains the process of pigment suspended in drying oils. Mainly drying oil colors are mixed with linseed oil, safflower oil, hempseed oil, castor oil and poppy seed oil etc. for making artist oil colors. With the technique of oil painting, world’s finest paintings are completed. Artists use different types of oil in same painting for giving desirable effects and effects according to the pigments.
2. What is Oil Painting?
• Contains the process of pigment suspended
in drying oils
• It completed world’s finest paintings
• The charcoal or thinned paint started the
traditional oil painting techniques with artist
sketching on surface of canvas
• More professionalism if done on the surface
of canvas which is made from “pure
European linen”
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3. History of Oil Painting
• Italy during Renaissance period most olive
oil is used for painting and it was
readymade
• Between the 5th and 10th centuries first oil
painting made of Buddhist by Indian and
Chinese painters in western Afghanistan
• In 11th century first time it is cleared in
Europe that oil is also a medium of painting
• During 20th century many new
improvements are held in oil paintings
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4. Famous Oil Paintings
• Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434
• The Cardplayers, Paul Cezanne, 1892
• Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci, 1503-1506
• The Sistine Madonna, Raphael, 1513
• Supper at Emmaus, Caravaggio 1601
• The Nightwatch, Rembrandt, 1642
• Portrait of the Cardinal, El Greco, 1600
• The Swing, Jean Honore Fragonard, 1767
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5. Benefits of Oil Paintings
• Creates luminous, hardwearing colors
• Exposed to air for several weeks without
drying
• Blends well with surrounding paints
• Linseed Oil is best in artistic paint because it
dries faster
• Linseed Oil is only most popular oil painting
type
• World’s most finest paintings are related to
Oil Painting
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