The Material and Tools of Oil Painting
Oil paintings is a kind of painting that used transparent plant oil to make paint, was drew to model artistic image on those cloth, paper, wood and etc material which has a set base. It was original in Europe, and became one of the cosmopolitan important paintings in modern times. The EggTempera, belonged to European painting that were made beofre 15th century were the predecessor of oil painting. When using tempera, at the same time, many painters went on finding a better harmonious product. It is generally said that, ath the beginning of 15th century, the Netherlands painters—Van. Ike brothers were the founders of Oil paintings skills. On the basis that ancestors tried to use oil to dissolve paint,they chose flax seed oil and walnut oil to be harmony to paint, which makes drawing smooth, and also the time for paint to be wet on the paint was moderate, this prone to cover and modify for many times during drawing, form ample color gradation and lustrousness, and the paint’s adherion ability is very strong after being dry, not easy to peel off and fade. Their chooing new Oil paintings material to paint, which has a great infulency in the painting world at that time. The technique of Oil paintings was spread quickly in other western European countries, especially got rapidly development in Venice, Italy.
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