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Concepts, techniques and tools used in oil painting

Category: Arts

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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

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

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

Pigment is the substance or powder that makes up the color of a paint. Pigments are either organic (carbon based) or inorganic (mineral based).

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Oiling out – is when you paint a very thin coat of medium over the painting to bring the colours back to how they looked when you first painted them. Depending on the absorbency of the canvas, the ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

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

Mass Tone is the undiluted colour of a pigment or paint when it's in a large blob. Also known as mass colour.

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

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