Creating beautiful artwork requires much more than a creative vision and a blank canvas. The materials you choose directly ...

I once asked an artist I know what he did about varnishing his oil paintings. I had read about "varnishing day" at the great salon exhibits in Paris in the 19th century and wondered what it was like ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

Developed in Dallas by JD Miller since 2001, Reflectionism builds oil paint up to two inches off the canvas, and argues that ...

A team of chemical engineers affiliated with several institutions in Europe has determined why Old Masters of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries added egg yolk to their oil-based paints. In ...

Editor’s Note: David Coles is the founder and head paint-maker of Langridge Artist Colours. This is an edited extract from “Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color,” published by Thames & Hudson.

Follow a creative studio vlog featuring oil painting sessions, personal updates, and plans for the future. Get a ...

The walls of artist Numa Roda-Gil’s studio in Paris are covered with thousands of tiny mannequins, dolls, cartoons, badges, and toys. In the middle, in pride of place, is a glass box containing some ...

Though the term is used interchangeably with oil-based paints for most practical purposes, alkyd paints are actually not oil-based but alkyd resins mixed in some sort of thinner. When most people ...