Whether you’re new to oil painting or looking to refine your skills, this workshop offers a step-by-step experience in layering, blending, and working with oils to create depth and vibrancy. Using a ...

Oil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil painting.

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 ...

George H. Barrett says his interest in painting was whetted in high school, but he didn’t start dabbling in art until he retired from Westinghouse three years ago. Mr. Barrett, who has been taking ...