To paint quickly while creating exceptional texture and volume effects, J. M. W. Turner and other English artists of his generation relied on the development of innovative gels. All the rage in the ...

Acrylic paint is an artistic medium with the biggest number of paradoxes. Why so? When one paints with acrylic, they commonly use the watercolor technique. However, once the paint dries, it inherits ...

On Saturday, Oct. 24, Peggy Sherry, of Somerset, will demonstrate oil painting techniques during her demonstration from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea. Sherry has been ...

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.