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Heart white - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,961
Amor on White- Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D gold on plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,961
Love gold - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,961
Minnie mouse with balloons and gift
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,658
Lisa Marie Simpson
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,658
Beatles "For God and the Empire"
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 73 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,132
Terre-plein central
Harald Wolff
Painting - 150 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,282
Le violonceleste
Jean-Louis Mendrisse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$6,111
L'homme au bonnet d'ours
Florian Eymann
Painting - 72 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$3,422
Cleansing the soul
John Popkess
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.6 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$3,860
The last drop of water, Kakhov reservoir, Ukraine, Russia's war
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$5,647
Amphora with Flowers
Roberto Melli
Painting - 45 x 35 x 0.4 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.2 inch
$20,935
Velo Karoussell
Christine Seiterle
Painting - 74 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 29.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,859 $3,473
Entretien précieux
Christine Seiterle
Painting - 32 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,060
Away like yesterday and tomorrow
Christine Seiterle
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,661
A Little Rest
Christine Seiterle
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,326 $2,994
Les pins blancs
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$803 $723
Phiphi
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,263 $2,037
552020
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 150 x 190 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 74.8 x 0.4 inch
$3,395 $3,055
Fotdon
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 130 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,395 $3,055
Taylor Swift near Paris Arc de Triomphe
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$441
Vieille ville sud américaine
Plok
Painting - 92 x 73 x 5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 2 inch
$3,621 $3,259
Happy crowd
Christine Seiterle
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,859 $3,473
Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Kremenets
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$11,282
House in the forest
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 25 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$11,316
Palace on the Island / Lazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland, city landscape
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$11,282
St. Anna Chapel, Tirol, Austria
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$11,313
Mountain landscape. Ehrwald, Tirol, Austria
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$11,282
Flowers, spring - green, pink, red, white
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$11,033
The book is an open window
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$11,316
Summer landscape with white-pink cloud
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$11,316
Cow drinks water
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$11,316
Dark cow by the road
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$11,316
DIOR BLOSSOMS IN BATTLE NOCTURNES : ELEGANCE IN NEON
Hiro Ando
Painting - 130 x 105 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 41.3 x 1.2 inch
$6,224
San Francisco Shoes (Mounted on wood pegboard)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 120.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.6 x 48 x 1 inch
$3,500
TWINS : DUALITY IN MANGA HUE, A TOKYO MIRROR
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 200 x 145 x 5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 57.1 x 2 inch
$8,148
Le bonheur et le laurier
Youngmi Kim
Painting - 46 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$453
If I give you my soul
Robert van Bolderick
Painting - 190 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 74.8 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$16,974
Red Morning
Sarkis Hamalbashian
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,300 $3,870
Autumn Sun
Sarkis Hamalbashian
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,734 $3,361
Unmanned aerial vehicle
Kosta Morr
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,055
Maisons Saint-Gué Jaune 002
Marion Zylberman
Painting - 81 x 120 cm Painting - 31.9 x 47.2 inch
$4,345
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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.