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Oil painting on a budget: Testing AliExpress cheapest brushes for texture and control

Can high-quality oil paintings really be created using the cheapest brushes available on AliExpress?. In this video, we put ...
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Testing the cheapest oil painting brushes from AliExpress | Do they ruin or improve art?

Is it possible to create real oil paintings using the cheapest brushes from AliExpress, or do low prices guarantee poor results? In this video, we take a deep dive into budget oil painting tools and ...
The Economist

Old oil paintings are suffering from chemical “acne”

WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in 2006, she ...
Artnet

Did Jan van Eyck Really Invent Oil Paint?

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 ...