Oil Paints For Artists

Oil paints oil based paints are highly regarded in the artist community and one of the most versatile forms of painting.

Oil paints for artists.

Whether you ve just started painting or are a professional chances are you ve considered using oil paint. Best oil paintings around the world for your inspiration. Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder commonly used drying oils include linseed oil poppy seed oil walnut oil and safflower oil the choice of oil imparts a range of properties to the oil paint such as the amount of yellowing or drying time certain differences depending on the oil are also visible in the sheen of the paints. Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint.

Simply click on your favorite artist and then view all of our museum quality hand painted oil painting reproductions in one easy and convenient gallery. Our comprehensive website contains over 60 000 oil paintings from thousands of the most widely acclaimed artists the world over. While getting started with oil painting is fairly easy there is a little bit more to it than acrylics since you are working with toxic solvents and mediums and the drying time is much longer. Artists have been painting with oil paints for hundreds of years and oil paints continue to be popular worldwide due to their versatility quality and color.