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2. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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   A basic rule of oil paint application is 'fat over lean', meaning that each additional layer of paint should contain more oil than the layer below to allow proper drying. If each additional layer contains less oil, the final painting will crack and peel. The consistency on the canvas depends on the layering of the oil paint.

3. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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   Colors also have value; for example, yellow has a high value while blue and red have a low value. If you take a black and white picture of a colorful scene, all you are left with are the values. This important element of design, especially in painting and drawing, allows the artist to create the illusion of light through value contrast. [6]

4. Category:Oil paintings - Wikipedia

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   Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Oil paintings" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total.

5. Portal:Painting - Wikipedia

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   Oil paint was used by Europeans for painting statues and woodwork from at least the 12th century, but its common use for painted images began with Early Netherlandish painting in Northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance, oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced the use of egg tempera paints for panel paintings in most ...

6. Lists of colors - Wikipedia

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   These are the lists of colors; List of colors: A–F; List of colors: G–M; List of colors: N–Z; List of colors (alphabetical) List of colors by shade; List of color palettes; List of Crayola crayon colors; List of RAL colours; List of X11 color names

7. Impasto - Wikipedia

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   Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses (1890) is an oil painting by Van Gogh which makes extensive use of the impasto technique. Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, [1] usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas.

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9. 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.