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...
Category: Oil Paint
"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...
Like everything else, colors fade, darken, or become more translucent over time, but the change is slow, spanning decades or even centuries. After owning a painting for some time, you may discover...