This video explains how to achieve realistic dark skin tones in oil painting using flexible color mixing and observation. It ...

Creating beautiful artwork requires much more than a creative vision and a blank canvas. The materials you choose directly ...

The movement's first exhibition brings its nine founding artists together at Samuel Lynne Galleries, on view September 12 to ...

I once asked an artist I know what he did about varnishing his oil paintings. I had read about "varnishing day" at the great salon exhibits in Paris in the 19th century and wondered what it was like ...

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 ...

Football meets oil painting for a creative promotional project at Idaho. Courtesy of Emma Cuddy There is little that connects college football and oil painting. The sport barrels through fall ...

I walked into an oil painting class at the Oak Ridge Art Center with a question that is becoming familiar in this series: ...

Though the term is used interchangeably with oil-based paints for most practical purposes, alkyd paints are actually not oil-based but alkyd resins mixed in some sort of thinner. When most people ...