enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Oil painting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_painting

   Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas , wood panel or copper for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of the world.

3. Bill Alexander (painter) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Alexander_(painter)

   TV host and prolific painter Bob Ross studied under Alexander, from whom he learned his wet-on-wet technique, a method of painting rapidly using progressively thinner layers of oil paint. [4] Ross mentioned in the very first episode of The Joy of Painting that he had learned the technique from Bill Alexander, calling it "the most fantastic way ...

4. The Magic of Oil Painting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_of_Oil_Painting

   In each episode, Alexander taught techniques for landscape oil painting, completing a painting in each session, painting in a 16th-century style called alla-prima, now known as wet-on-wet. He was invited to record a pilot in late 1973 for KOCE. Alexander earned an Emmy for the show in 1979, making him the first painter to earn the award.

5. Paint This with Jerry Yarnell - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_This_with_Jerry_Yarnell

   Paint This with Jerry Yarnell is an educational television show produced by Jerry Yarnell, owner of the Yarnell School of Fine Art. It is broadcast primarily on public television channels. The show focuses mostly on landscape , wildlife , and Western American themes, in the impressionist style.

6. Painting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting

   Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil, such as linseed oil, poppyseed oil which was widely used in early modern Europe. Often the oil was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body and gloss. Oil paint ...

7. Oil paint - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_paint

   Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. Oil paint also has practical advantages over other paints, mainly because it is waterproof. The earliest surviving examples of oil paint have been found in Asia from as early as the 7th century AD, in examples of ...

8. Working in layers - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_in_layers

   Working in layers is used extensively in oil painting for paintings that require more than one session. For a painting that develops over several days, allowing for the oil paint to dry for a given layer, it is helpful to work with explicit painting layers. The first layer may be a ground, usually applied all over the surface.

9. Lining of paintings - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lining_of_paintings

   Lining an entire painting has largely fallen out of favor due to the invasive nature of the treatment. Minimalist intervention emphasizes the maintenance of the original integrity of a painting, so long as it is able to be displayed and the image is not disrupted. [2] However, patches are sometimes applied to strengthen specific areas of a ...