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Visaya 50/50/1 (2)
Sylvie Guyomard
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,120
Anticipated Embrace
Liana Ohanyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$350
Atinuke (Precious From Birth)
Daniel Owoeye
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,250
Abstraction 3
Marie Dominique Ferracci
Painting - 82 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$554
Abstraction
Marie Dominique Ferracci
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$441
Abstraction 4
Marie Dominique Ferracci
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$554
Abstraction 1b
Marie Dominique Ferracci
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$328
Le bouquet
Marie Dominique Ferracci
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$554
Fellow Feeling
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 116.8 x 116.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 46 x 46 x 1 inch
$4,099
Peace and Tranquility 2
Joshua Salami
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,799
Landscape with meadow
Elena Lukina
Painting - 40 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
Botanical ornate. A quadriptych of Mini oil paintings
Momalyu Liubov Kriuchkova
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$928
Lovely garden daisies
Elena Lukina
Painting - 50 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,041
Give Me the Truth, Not Roses
Idorenyin Umana
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 inch
$1,650
Senza titolo. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 48 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18.9 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Cold Sunlight - Sunny Winter Painting
Nikolay Dmitriev
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,584
Beautiful Sea Sunset
Nikolay Dmitriev
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,924
A corner of the Garden
Elena Lukina
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$985
When We Were Young
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 63.5 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,450
Civita Di Bagnoregio
Ahn Sung Kyu
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,263
Poppies and Peace
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$550 $468
Blooming arch by the sea
Elena Lukina
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,641
Evening colors by the river
Elena Lukina
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
Saturday evening in November
Elena Lukina
Painting - 40 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
River fountain in a city park
Elena Lukina
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,754
Landscape with poppy field
Elena Lukina
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,641
The illusion of peace
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,921
Minecraft - Child Labor Edition
Arlo Sinclair
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,050 $2,440
Taylor Swift at Parisian Gallery Opening
Christian Jodin
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$221
Agbeke Spotted Again
Adewuyi Theophilus
Painting - 124.5 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 49 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,299
White Dog in Dem Platz
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 26 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 10.2 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$905
Memories of relaxation. Villa Sunny
Andrei Shchurok
Painting - 130 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
$8,487
In Her Prime
Ogunleke Festus Abiodun
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,550
II (two) Imperfect Imperfections
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,000
The Mediterranean sunset
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$283
Circle of Trust 2
Iyiola Odunayo
Painting - 101.6 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,000
Circle of Trust 1
Iyiola Odunayo
Painting - 101.6 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,000
Autumn Colours
Linda Yurgensen
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,663
Bird Pair with White Flowers
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$300
Variations colorées
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,980
Venice Cathedral
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,200
Autumn Whispers in the Garden
Hrach Baghdasaryan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$450
The Journey Of The Sun
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 180 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,432
The Coastal Sentinels
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$380
Coral Reef Painting Ocean Art Underwater Seascape Original Painting
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,546
Meadow Painting Poppies Flowers
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 68 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 26.8 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,697
Red Fish Symphony on Grey
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 60 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,811
The Symphony Of Summer
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 70 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,924
The Etude Of Summer
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 70 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,924
Echoes of the highlands
Arman Avagyan
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,600
Autumn in the valley
Arman Avagyan
Painting - 55 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,600
Grand Canal of Venice
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 45 x 65 x 2.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 25.6 x 1 inch
$840
Red Fish in Coral Reef
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 60 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,037
The Softness Of Spring
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,086
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Oil Painting for Sale
Oil painting is a type of paint which involves mixing crushed color pigments usually with linseed oil, although poppy seed oil can also be used. The support on which it is painted must be covered with a primer beforehand so that the layer of paint can adhere to the support; an additional step which is crucial to the creative process and also means that it can be adapted to many types of surfaces.
It was during the Middle Ages that oil painting first appeared and began to be developed in the Western world. The discovery of oil painting is often attributed to the Flemish painter, Jan Van Eyck who had been experimenting with various mixtures. With this new painting technique, his works benefited from new transparency effects and a new type of aesthetic was born. His approach was copied and later shared more widely by other primitive Flemish painters. Oil painting replaced the tempera technique, which uses egg as a binder.
Similarly, the wood on which artists painted was replaced by linen canvas, installed on a frame from the 15th century onwards and later placed on an easel. Although it was well-liked by painters, this medium had its drawbacks; its components were toxic and its preparation required a great amount of artisan savoir-faire in the studio. Despite this, it became closely linked to the visual arts and and was hugely popularised during the Renaissance thanks to the Venetian painters such as Titian, followed closely by the Flemish, including Rubens, before it reached the Netherlands who made it their own, with Rembrandt leading the way.
The 19th and 20th centuries saw oil painting became the number one choice and the preferred medium for for modern times. The mixture no longer had to be prepared by artists in the studio; industrialization had made things easier and the paint came pre-prepared, packaged in tubes. The tin tube was commercialized in France in 1840 and revolutionised the history of art by encouraging the Impressionists to take their brushes and paints outside and paint en plein air. It would slowly be overtaken by acrylic paint a century later which simplified things even further as it was dried faster.
An oil painting canvas also implies that the painter must respect the fat-over-lean principle, meaning that a colors with high oil content (fat) should be applied over layers of paint with lower oil content (lean) to ensure that the painting will last longer and to prevent cracking. Oil painting remains a widely used method and numerous artworks are still made using this technique.
Contemporary artists still master oil painting but sometimes avoid working with it in the same traditional ways of the 20th century. The canvas is often not prepared so that its texture can be seen under the layer of paint, as certain abstract painters have done. Jackson Pollock for example used oil painting but did not glaze his works. He didn't even truly paint his canvases as he used a dripping technique; by shaking his brush he created splashes of paint over the canvas…
On Artsper, explore contemporary paintings by well-known artists including Arman, Salvador Dali and Robert Combas.
Oil painting allows for very efficient mixing of colors and tones. Due to its long drying time, it is possible to alter an oil painting days after the paint has been applied. Oil painting also allows for precision and a range of visual effects.
Oil paint and acrylic paint are produced using different materials. While oil painting consists of pigments suspended in drying oils, acrylic paint is water-based. The main difference between the two is that acrylic paints can be thinned down with water, and dry faster than oil paints.
It is easier to correct mistakes when working in oil paint as they are more opaque than watercolors and can be easily scraped off a surface.