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White Flowers
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
£444
Island study, windy and white
Chrissy Nickerson
Painting - 41 x 64 x 4 cm Painting - 16.1 x 25.2 x 1.6 inch
£604
Green abstract landscape and sea, mountains, forest
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.8 inch
£7,287
Bright color abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£7,376
Infinito -Serie, Nos vemos en el Azul-
Esther Aragon
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,289
Calma -Serie, Nos vemos en el Azul-
Esther Aragon
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£711
Calma nocturna -Serie, Nos vemos en el Azul-
Esther Aragon
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£711
Mitologías -Serie, Nos vemos en el Azul-
Esther Aragon
Painting - 65 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
£711
Estate #2. From The Beaches series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 49.8 x 125 x 3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 49.2 x 1.19 inch
£5,391
Estate #1. From The Beaches series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 39.9 x 99.8 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 39.3 x 1.19 inch
£4,478
Black-white Lake
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 180 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 70.9 x 1.8 inch
£6,221
Tree of life and Fertility
Momalyu Liubov Kriuchkova
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£764
Polyphony of Feelings.
Momalyu Liubov Kriuchkova
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£764
Bright magical flowers and funny birds
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£711
Résonances sous le Feuillage
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 50 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£711
Le cœur de l'Océan
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 60 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
£1,298
From the series Ecology of soul and nature V
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
£1,333
From the series Ecology of soul and nature II
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
£1,333
Virtual Reality
Yannick Aaron
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.8 inch
£4,888
Plage de Saint-Cast
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£159,968
Bohemian Native Spirit
Jules Holland
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2.2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.9 inch
£4,888
Starman’s Indigenous Soul
Jules Holland
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2.2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.9 inch
£4,888
Black night sunset
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
£3,910
Deep blue water - 3d plaster minimalism impressionist seascape navy black
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,222
L'homme assis
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 60.6 x 50.6 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.9 x 19.9 x 0.2 inch
£1,639
Les ombres du savoir
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
£2,657
Summer on the river
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£788
Peace and Tranquility 2
Joshua Salami
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
£2,321
L'arrivée du Printemps
Antoine Lombardo
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£711
The Color of the Wind: Wine Throw
Ron Connors
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£1,907
Petite chapelle
Armand Marie Guérin
Painting - 60 x 72.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.5 x 0.2 inch
£1,229
La presqu'île de cassis
Chantal Buissart
Painting - 80 x 56 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 22 x 0.8 inch
£800
Princess with Horns, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Nathalie Gribinski
Painting - 160 x 243.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 96 x 1 inch
£7,961
The Music Mind
Nathalie Gribinski
Painting - 142.2 x 137.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 56 x 54 x 1 inch
£5,308
Wild Bouquet,
Nathalie Gribinski
Painting - 134.6 x 99.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 53 x 39 x 1 inch
£4,312
Horror Vacui I, Doodle Eyes
Marie Julou (Tina McCallan)
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
£889
A beautiful friendship 1
Moksananda
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,173
Fellow Feeling
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 116.8 x 116.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 46 x 46 x 1 inch
£3,399
Le Louvre, Paris
Philippe Olivier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£755
Vue sur le Sacré-Cœur, Paris
Philippe Olivier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£755
Quai St Michel, Paris
Philippe Olivier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£755
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The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£995 £846
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£829
Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,066
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
£1,155
The beauty of dance XII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
£1,511
Portrait #2. 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
£995
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.