Oil paint can be messy. If cleanup is put off, it gets harder and harder (and can even ruin your paint brushes).

During the Renaissance, a period of artistic and intellectual awakening, painters developed innovative techniques that ...

Here, we explain what distinguishes oil-based paints and water-based paints and give some tips for choosing the right type of paint for your project. Oil-based paint consists of pigments suspended ...

She shows how she mixes paint colours and outlines why it’s so important to get it right. She explains how to achieve detail and form with the technique of drawing into wet oil paint on paper.