Because olive oil is a non-drying oil, it will react with your canvas, oxidize and develop a film over your painting. Therefore, you cannot use olive oil to thin oil paint. Unlike...
Category: Oil Paint
Unfortunately, spontaneous combustion is not an unrealistic concern with oil paint. Unless you carefully store the paper towels and rags that you use to clean your brushes, they can spontaneously...
"Why is oil painting so hard?" If you're a fledgling oil painter, particularly one who mainly has experience working with only acrylics and watercolors so far, this might be a question you're asking...
Using a combination of acrylics and oils in a painting creates unique properties of a painting. Acrylics tend to dry faster hence any mistake needs to be corrected immediately. Oils dry slower and...
Oil paintings do fade in sunlight, but they’re much more resilient than watercolor paintings. Exposing your oil painting to the sun for a short period will have little or no effect on it. However,...
Paintings make a fortune for the artist, especially when one is a masterpiece with overwhelming creativity. However, their value could vary depending on the type of paint used and its quality. If you...