Saturday, November 8, 2008

All about Oil Painting

Oil painting is very impressive method of paintings because by create a painting using oil painting you look like a pro painting artist. But must be present patient because they do not dry very quickly and thus paves much time to work and more scope for blending. Once the oil painting are dried they can be painted again and this would not disturb the underlying layers. Another important and very attractive feature is that there is wide variety of color options available with oil paintings and such a range of colors is not offered by any of the modes of painting. You also have very rich and deep colors which maintain their intensity even after they are dried.
Some of the demerits which the oil paintings have are that they take very long time to dry. As they dry very hardly you will have to wait for several months before the painting can be varnished. When working with oil paintings you can work on many paintings simultaneously because of the excessive time they take to dry. As far as brush which is used in oil painting is considered it can be cleaned only with spirit. And if you want to know more about oil painting tools you can find in this blog.