If you’re wanting to tap into or express your artistic side, you might consider oil painting as a new hobby. It’s therapeutic and creative and, one day, you’ll have a finished piece to adorn your wall ...

Do expensive oil paints actually make better art,or is it all marketing? In this experiment, a fine artist compares cheap and ...

Oil paint is suitable for exterior surfaces, and you can clean oil-painted surfaces regularly without damaging the paint. (You’ll need to use a solvent to clean brushes and equipment.) Oil paints can ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

Oil-based paint and stains don’t last forever, and when they’ve gone bad, it’s time to think about paint disposal. Whether the paint has dried out or the stain smells off, these products can’t be used ...