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Concepts, techniques and tools used in oil painting

Category: Arts

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Plein air is a painting created outside rather than in a studio. The term comes from the French 'en plein air' meaning 'in the open air'.

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Refined Linseed Oil is made from the seeds of the flax plant. It adds gloss and transparency to paints and is available in several forms. It dries very thoroughly, making it ideal for underpainting ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Scumble is a very thin layer of opaque or semi-opaque paint that partially hides the under-layer. Scumbling is the painting technique where a thin or broken layer of color is brushed over another so ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Sfumato, (from Italian sfumare, "to tone down" or "to evaporate like smoke"), is the fine shading that produces soft, imperceptible transitions between colours and tones. It is used most often in ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Sight-size ia a painting technique where the key idea is that your eye needs to be able to see both the canvas and the subject in one glance, so they both appear the same size. This makes it easier ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Sinking in happens when the paint medium is absorbed by the underlying layer of paint, this could be due to an too absorbent or unevenly applied absorbent ground. The resulting appearance is a ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Turpentine (spirits) is the traditional solvent or thinner for a drying oil (such as Linseed oil) distilled from the resin from certain trees, e.g the European larch, white fir, and American longleaf ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

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