Oil paint

Over the last 50 years the use of essential oils has become more popular in my house and all around the world, but do they really work? These oils that are pulled from plants are said to have therapeutic properties; dab some lavender and melaleuca oils on your ear and your earache will surely go away! Many people are skeptical of the healing properties within these glass bottles while others use them everyday for everything. So do these oils really have therapeutic properties? Could this be a…

times, I believe that we have never seen an oil painter like Jenny Saville. To me, her work is something I could spend hours looking at. The way her paint blends but yet how it still stand out on its own. The way she paints is not going to painting to painting, she takes her time with each piece to make it the best that it can be. Many people compare her work to Lucian Ferdana and Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Saville is renowned for her update to the traditional oil painting, having these very weighty…

(Crane.tv). The series of paintings entitled, “Tongues and incisions’” uses the exposure of raw flesh (oil on canvas and polyurethane on aluminum and wood support) to carry the heavy contrast between “rational, geometrical, cold” and “the presence of the body, history written in the body”. Such two descriptions carries the artist’s fascination with Portugal’s colonization…

major and a 3.51 overall. I began my undergraduate studies at Radford University with a major in art education. This seemed like the most logical path that I could choose in order to share my passion for art. At the end of my junior year, I took an oil painting class in order to fulfill the general requirements for graduation. This class changed the entire direction of my college career and sparked a passion with a medium that I had never experienced…

1. The oil painting, Man in a Red Turban, painted by Van Eyck represents the medium of oil painting. Van Eyck used great detail and such rich colors for his painting. The deep and rich colors of his turban depict lifelike folds. The cracks in Van Eyck’s painting represent the lines of the man’s forehead which gives him an elderly look. In Sonsini’s Fernado, Manuel, and David, has considerably less intricate detail compared to Van Eyck’s painting. The men and the background are not defined by…

I student attending Lakeland Union Highschool and I am in 9th grade. Throughout the semester I completed an acrylic close up of blueberries, an acrylic butterfly stained glass, an oil balloon gradation, an oil still life and an oil 12x12 free choice. I chose to do an oil painting, because I was getting used to the oil techniques.The picture that I chose shows depth as the layout is, an old red van, surrounded by darkish, tall trees that line the road, along with a rail, a mountain in the…

This painting measures about 42 inches x 52 1/2 inches. The painting was created by oil paint, a medium composed of pigments and varying types of vegetable oils. The painting was done on stretched canvas, and therefore it gives the painting a slight textured quality. The painter, Titan, painted this picture giving soft appearances of the colors. The painting doesn’t have any harsh brush strokes, and the paint seems to be very blended. The colors have a stunning radiant quality, from the light…

that has been given about the mediums used, looking closely at this work it appears a crayon or oil pastel type of media has also been used to form some of the lines within the skull, such as the large black geometric line work almost forming a misshapen cube, the outline to create the teeth of the skull and also the random rapid scribbles that are see on the bottom right hand corner of the canvas. An oil pastel is pigment set into wax, it is a soft wax medium that does not dry. A crayon on the…

While I was at the El Paso Art Museum a piece of artwork caught my eye. The piece is called Dona Josefa by Manuel Acosta. I find Manuel Acosta’s painting very interesting because it was made out of oil paint. In my opinion I feel like oil paint is a very beautiful technique to use. I feel the paint makes the painting pop out to the audience and makes it have a shine. Dona Josefa painting has a lot of visual elements that helps the audience understand the piece of artwork. Lastly the artwork of…

Vermeer used oil to paint this master piece that would forever be a part of history. Using camera obscura Vermeer was able to create a very detailed painting because device that aided him on his work. When the whole that the light comes through is smaller the image becomes sharper leading to a more detailed piece of art. Modern ones would have a lens to make the image bigger. Vermeer was also famous for his special blend of oil that was known by other artist but nobody was able to perfect it…