Artists have been using oil-based paint for hundreds
of years, and oil paintings are still extremely popular
among collectors. Salt Meadow Gallery has a wide variety
of oil paintings to choose from on both canvas and wood
panel in traditional, impressionistic, and expressionistic
styles. Artists working
in oils include Michael
Cunliffe Thompson, Nancy
Worth, Sergey Zhiboedov,
Tracy Helgeson,
Marc Awodey , Melanie
Chartier and Ann Solomon.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Oil painting is done on surfaces with pigment ground
into a medium of oil - especially in early modern Europe,
linseed oil. Other oils occasionally used include poppyseed
oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil. These oils result
in different properties in the oil paint, such as less
yellowing or different drying times.
It was probably developed for decorative or functional
purposes in the High Middle Ages. Surfaces
like shields - both those used in tournaments and those
hung as decorations - were more durable when painted
in oil-based media than when painted in the traditional
tempera paints. Many Renaissance sources credit northern
European painters of the 15th century with the 'invention'
of painting with oil media on wood panel - Jan van Eyck
often mentioned as the "inventor". Read
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