Art for Sale, Oil Media

Oil Art for Sale at loveart
Quickly Learn About Oil Art for Sale
How to take care of your Oil Painting
Oil Painting a Short History
Some Famous Oil Painters
Useful Resources about Oil Paintings

Oil Art for Sale at loveart

loveart and Exemplars use cutting-edge technology to display a fantastic collection of art in way unmatched anywhere else on the internet.

Our collections include a range of some of the best oil art in sale today.

loveart has oil art on sale from £750 or around $1300 (USD), to £3,000 or about $5250 (USD).

Exemplars also has oil art on sale, starting from £2,500 or around $4,375 (USD).

Quickly Learn About Oil Art for Sale

Oil paint comprises of small color particles held in a mixture of linseed oil, thinner, a waxy preservative and a drying agent.

Oil paint is slow-drying and can take weeks, if not months to fully set. This allows painters to continually add layers to their oil paintings creating a detailed art piece with many textures and sensuous brush strokes.

Artists choose whether to add a layer of varnish over the top of their Oil paintings to seal it in; an increasing amount of contemporary artists prefer to leave their work unvarnished.

Oil paint is usually applied to a canvas in many layers. An artist will often remove an entire layer of oil paint when going through the improvement process. On close inspection, many oil paintings for sale show signs of scraping, where the artist has ‘scraped’ off a hardened layer of oil paint. This evidence of scraping is not a mistake, and adds to the authenticity of the artist’s hard work.

Linseed oil is the most common substance used for oil paintings, but poppyseed, walnut, and safflower oil can also be used, which create a different effect on the painting. It also varies the drying time.

Oil paintings are usually dry enough to be varnished after 6 months to a year. However, most art conservators do not consider oil paintings to be truly dry until it is 60 to 80 years old.

Wood panel enables the artist to apply finer details to their work due to the solidity of the canvas.

How to Take Care of Your Oil Painting

Handle your oil painting by the frame, or if this is not possible, by the edges. Try not to touch the painted surface.

Do not let any object press against the front or back of the oil painting canvas.

If storing, put the oil painting in a custom-sized plywood container and brace the piece of work so that air can flow on all sides.

Display or store your acrylic painting below standard room temperature (21°C).

Keep your oil painting away from any humidity.

You can dust your oil painting occasionally using a soft-bristled brush. If the painting is very dirty, old, or valuable, we recommend you take it to a professional restorer.

Keep your oil painting out of direct sunlight.

Oil Painting a Short History

Between 1400 and 1600, it became popular for tempura paintings to be supplemented by oil. During the same period, Jan van Eyck, followed by Antonello da Messina, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rubens, all made major improvements to the media. Rubens settled on walnut oil warmed with litharge, supplemented by mastic dissolved in turpentine.

By the 1600s, pure oil paints were more readily available and in regular use. Demand for oil in the subsequent period was strong, because of its suitability to realism that was much in demand at the time.

Some Famous Oil Painters

Creating some of the most well-known art pieces in the world including the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, and the Virgin of the Rocks, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1415) was one of the key players in the Renaissance period.

The Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had a hard life, which may have contributed towards his genius. Known for chopping his ear off during a breakdown in his relationship with his girlfriend, it was at this time some of his best works were produced.

One of the founders of French Impressionist painting, Claude Monet (1840-1926), painted many of his works in ‘plein-air’.