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2. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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   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. The Avenue in the Rain - Wikipedia

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   The Avenue in the Rain, 1917 Barack Obama working at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office in 2009, with the painting to his right. The Avenue in the Rain is a 1917 oil painting by the American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam. It depicts Fifth Avenue in New York City in the rain, draped with U.S. flags.

4. Working in layers - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Dipper (container) - Wikipedia

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   An oil dipper is used to hold a supply of turpentine, oil or painting medium, fastened to the painter's palette. [ 1 ] Used in oil painting , it can be clipped onto the edge of the wooden palette .

6. Oil paint - Wikipedia

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   The thickness of the coat has considerable bearing on the time required for drying: thin coats of oil paint dry relatively quickly. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varnish may be added to increase the glossiness of the dried oil paint film. The addition of oil or ...

7. The Gulf Stream (painting) - Wikipedia

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   The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It shows a man in a small dismasted rudderless fishing boat struggling against the storm-tossed waves and perils of the sea, presumably near the Gulf Stream, and was the artist's statement on a theme that had interested him for more than a decade.

8. Rabbit-skin glue - Wikipedia

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   In traditional oil painting as practiced by the Renaissance painter, skin glue was used to seal the canvas. This is necessary because the linseed oil that forms the base of most oil paint contains linolenic acid that will destroy the canvas fibers over time. Renaissance artists also knew that pure size (hide glue) became brittle once dry, and ...

9. The Calling of Saint Matthew - Wikipedia

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   The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting by Caravaggio that depicts the moment Jesus Christ calls on the tax collector Matthew to follow him.It was completed in 1599–1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains.