Oil paint is wonderfully versatile. It can be applied in thick, expressive impastos, or thinned down and used almost like watercolours. It can be brushed or scrubbed, knifed on or scratched out, ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

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 ...

On its own, oil paint takes an eon to dry. To speed drying time and increase paint viscosity, mix drying oils into your pigments. There’s a wide range of drying oils on the market. Options include ...

Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist you should know. Check out what we ...

Thomas Unger has made the unconventional choice to paint with coffee and motor oil. Courtesy Thomas Unger Like a lot of people, Thomas Unger is pretty particular about his coffee. How it tastes is ...