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Buying Oil Paintings – A Smart Decision

Posted by Jessie | Oil Painting | Monday 9 February 2009 3:32 am

Oil paintings give your home a touch of distinction. Exact reproductions are made by professional painters according to your necessities. Oil paintings

are beautiful additions to the house, and are great conversation pieces too. These paintings require special care. Don’t forget that, be carefully.

If you take the decision to learn how to paint, you should follow these tips. How to preserve the oil painting color’s intensity? First, during mixing the

color, try to combine with the colors nearer to each other in the color wheel, avoid over mixing the color on the palette, and always mix the color on

the palette before applying the paint on the painting surface. Try to avoid blending the colors too much on the painting surface. There are many more

tips but you’ll learn them with the practice.

Picasso is another exponent of the oil paintings. Let’s know more about Pablo Picasso. This famous artist, also known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso

(1881-1973), the most reputable Spanish Cubist oil Painting artist ,sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most

significant artists of the 20th century and the creator of Cubinism movement.

Perhaps you hear this phrase “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to

understand.” (Pablo Picasso)

Nowaday we learn something new; oil paintings are interesting topics to discover. Styles, famous painters and techniques are the most important

topics to begin to learn. You should visit museums and galleries. It would help you in the future if you decide to enter this world.

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