Since oil paints were time-consuming to produce and quick to dry out, artists prepared only a few colors to work with during a painting session and would fill in just one area of a canvas at a ...

Oil paint is simple. It's just a mixture of oil and pigment. But depending on the color and quality, a liter of this paint could cost up to $1,100.

WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in ...

Until the tube, (oil) paint pigments were few in color, took time to produce, ... Oil painting, which first emerged in the 15th century, had to make do with comparatively limited colors.

Upon opening the door to her studio, one is overwhelmed by the plethora of oil paintings – both visually and olfactorily. In a room where Yi Yi Jeong-eun dries her paintings are oil paint tubes ...