Oil Paints

Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint consisting of small pigments particles suspended in a drying oil. Many artists today consider oil paint to be one of the fundamental art media; something that a student should learn to appreciate, because of its properties and use in previous, very popular artwork.

Typical qualities of oil paint include:

-the long open time, where paint will not dry for up to several weeks, allowing the artist to work on a painting for several sessions.

-the propensity for the paint to blend into surrounding paint allowing very subtle blending of colors.

-vivid, high chroma colors