Oil Painting Reproductions: A Short Introduction
Art in any form is a creative piece of work and it always has a large fan following in the form of collectors, connoisseurs and just plain lovers of art. Oil painting reproductions is also one of the results of such a creative mind and talent at work. For such fan following of oil painting works it is better to be aware of the nuances beneath or that goes into the creation of the oil painting. The final product that such a lover of art beholds would have greater depth in meaning if one is aware of the process that makes it so.
A canvas is the base upon which the artist would create or weave the magic that attracts its beholder. Stretched taut and tight the artist would be splaying the color of magic which is made up from a combination of pigment and oil. The final product of this application of paint is what would hold the lover of the art in mesmerized attention.
Linseed oil has been the primary type of oil that has been used for creation of oil painting by its proponents especially of the European region where it originated from. There have been artists though who have used other types of oil like safflower, walnut and poppy seed oil for using in their creative work. While all other aspects remain the same it is the yellowing property and the time duration for drying that differs between the paint based on linseed and that of any other type of oil.
Oil paints due its composition are therefore semi solid in chemical and physical form. This gives the paint an advantage of not flowing over onto the adjacent area of its application. It sticks to the area that the paint has been applied upon. Yet the paint takes a long time to dry up while sticking to its area of application. This gives the artist the advantage of being able to mix colors of choice upon the canvas itself and watch the new shade that the mix takes. The artist therefore gets more leeway as far as trying out shades go direct upon the artwork. Water color on the other hand has the issue of spreading to adjacent areas and mixing up immediately to give a different shade of color than that intended by the artist.
The oil paint is applied upon the canvas within the boundary that forms the sketch by the artist. It is to this sketch that the artist applies color to and brings to near real life for its admirers. The sketch is drawn with the help of charcoal.
It is not just one layer of paint that the oil paint artist would be applying to the sketch upon the canvas. Multiple layers form the final work and for this the artist would have applied varied amount of oil to the paint. By rule the higher the layer of paint more the oil that has been applied to the pigment by the artist. This would ensure that the paint does not crack or peel when it gets dried up.
While on the issue of drying, it is to be noted that artists do apply turpentine or mineral spirits to reduce the period required for drying of the final work with its layers and mix of oil paint.
With the advance that technology has gone through with times oil paint artists now have two distinct paints which are chemically produced to work with. Oil painting reproductions using these types of paints have their own characteristics and the distinct way of differentiating them is that one can be cleaned with normal water while the other has to be treated with heat under special conditions for it to dry up. With all these medium and features of the oil paint, this type of art work is easier to produce than any other and therefore would be cheaper by cost to pick up for one’s collection building.
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