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Concepts, techniques and tools used in oil painting

Category: Arts

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Impasto is the texture created in a paint surface by the movement of the brush. Impasto usually implies thick, heavy brushwork, but the term also refers to the crisp, delicate textures found in ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Imprimatura is an initial stain of oil colour painted on a white ground which provides you with a transparent toned ground. It is similar to a coloured ground but more transparent. It comes from the ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Inpainting is a painting technique commonly used by conservators to unify a painting that has suffered paint loss and refers to paint applied over damaged areas only.

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Mass Tone is the undiluted colour of a pigment or paint when it's in a large blob. Also known as mass colour.

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Plein air is a painting created outside rather than in a studio. The term comes from the French 'en plein air' meaning 'in the open air'.

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Oiling out – is when you paint a very thin coat of medium over the painting to bring the colours back to how they looked when you first painted them. Depending on the absorbency of the canvas, the ...

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

Pigment is the substance or powder that makes up the color of a paint. Pigments are either organic (carbon based) or inorganic (mineral based).

Domain: Arts & crafts; Category: Oil painting

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