Painting can be a time-consuming job, but it can become unnecessarily frustrating when using inferior products instead of finishes from the best paint brands. Paints that don’t provide excellent ...

Oil paint prices vary wildly, but how much difference do they actually make in real painting conditions? In this experiment, ...

Comparing cheap and expensive oil paints reveals how much materials actually influence the painting process. In this video, a ...

I once asked an artist I know what he did about varnishing his oil paintings. I had read about "varnishing day" at the great salon exhibits in Paris in the 19th century and wondered what it was like ...

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 ...