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.

Painting is a hand craft using several media that includes watercolor or oil paint. The concept is to combine colors that form a portrait of a particular object. Painting, as a work of art, requires skill. Not everyone can paint or has interest in painting. Painting forms ones creativity as well as artistic ability. This kind of craft is worth appreciating. In effect, paintings are valuable materials worth of keepsake.

One interesting craft in the aspect of painting is photo oil painting. This kind of painting is converting photo to painting using oil media. Oil painting from photo is a piece that can be used as a gift item or as a personal keepsake. One advantage of photo oil painting is that the portrait lasts longer than actual photo. Remember most oil paints last for more than a century if preserved well.

Solvents are added to oil paints for temporary change, they are designed to work in a way such that they evaporate consistently and completely as the oil paint dries. (Technically, the more correct term is diluents, as not all are solvents, but it’s not the term very commonly used.) Solvents are also used to soften resins, making mediums, cleaning up, and also for cleaning brushes. It is very essential to use solvents in a well-ventilated room and you need to remember that they are flammable (catch fire easily).

Turpentine is the traditional solvent used in the oil painting. It’s actually based on tree resin and has a very fast evaporation rate, releasing harmful vapors. It could also be absorbed through healthy skin. Try using only artist quality turpentine as the industrial variety you will find in hardware stores probably contains impurities; it needs to be colorless, like water. It is also known as spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, genuine turpentine, English turpentine, distilled turpentine; double rectified turpentine, or even simply turps.