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Pink blossom - spring, flowers garden
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$781
Elegance unfolding
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$999
Purple flowers
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$999
Muse. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 140 x 140 x 0.3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.1 inch
$12,000
Travail auprés des arbres
José Saboia
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,786
What weighs you down
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,250
You are what you have
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 2 inch
$1,500
My soul sees only thy soul its own
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,572
Time to Breathe
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,456
Dreaming of Palm Trees
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,456
Bottles (Candle Holders)
Andrii Davydenko
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,228
Next to Babi Yar
Andrii Davydenko
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,228
Capacity For Grief
Katherine Filice
Painting - 182.9 x 111.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 72 x 44 x 1.5 inch
$6,251
Crystal Cove, beside Mackenzie Beach. Single tree. Stormy.
Chrissy Nickerson
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,092
Untitled
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,907 $3,516
Untitled
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,907 $3,516
Symphony in Color
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,000
Ruscello
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 190 x 140 x 0.3 cm Painting - 74.8 x 55.1 x 0.1 inch
$15,000
„Blue Window“ Blue white abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 59 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Pink Field at Sunrise
Tigran Mamikonyan
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
Tree of love Early spring 2024 - spring in France, flowers garden
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$781
Azure serenity - blue turquoise water, sea, waves
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,456
Field of color - west
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 1.3 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.5 inch
$1,150
Her Universe
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,005
La cigogne est passée
Paskal Hotman
Painting - 92 x 86 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 33.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,328
In Time series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,786 $1,607
The Dawn of Perception
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,791
Earthbound in the Forest
Claire Wiltsher
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3.5 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.4 inch
$1,635
Iron Man loves Rock 'n Roll
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,121
The baby Panda loves Pop Art
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,121
Abstract n°4-14
Harry James Moody
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,340
Summer on the river
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$950
Who Are These Angels CXLI
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,250
Les arbres 02.03.24
Laurent Bouro
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,902
Fresh Roses
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$670
Flowers 5
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$558
Flowers on the background of the Sea
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$781
Royal Roses
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$781
Flowers 2
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$670
Impossible architectures IV
Orlando Alandia
Painting - 80 x 80 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
$1,451
Impossible architectures III
Orlando Alandia
Painting - 80 x 80 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
$1,451
Impossible architectures II
Orlando Alandia
Painting - 80 x 80 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
$1,451
Portrait #13. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Untitled
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 90 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$6,140 $5,526
Untitled
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 110 x 142 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 55.9 x 0.8 inch
$6,140 $5,526
Under The Sun
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 110 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$6,140 $5,526
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Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,340
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Walk in the sky - blue pink geometry abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,451
The beauty of dance XII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,898
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.
What is special about oil painting?
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.
What's the difference between oil painting and acrylic?
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.
Is oil painting easier than watercolor?
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.