A full breakdown of oil painting fundamentals combined with a complete portrait painting demonstration. You’ll learn how to set up your materials properly, understand oil paint behavior, and apply ...

A complete introduction to oil painting, designed for anyone who wants to understand the medium properly. It covers all the core materials you need, including paints, brushes, mediums, and surfaces, ...

In Red Butte Garden & Arboretum, Hour 2, see Andrew Holter's appraisal of American Folk Art oil portraits, ca. 1810. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available ...

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In a sea of selfies, why not spring for something far more enduring? New York–based artist Claudia Munro Kerr spent her formative years between Scotland and Madrid, where she lived a stone’s throw ...

Paris (AFP) – A previously unknown portrait by Pablo Picasso of French artist Dora Maar -- the painter's best-known muse -- sold for 32 million euros ($37 million) in Paris on Friday, auction house ...

This November, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will celebrate “Portrait of a Nation,” adding four new works to its collection. This year, the honorees are poet Joy Harjo, academic Temple ...

The tradition of painting the portrait of a British monarch is an exclusive art form that stretches back more than 600 years. But for the first time, the brush was not being wielded by a human, but by ...

When oil painter Richard Abraham was growing up on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he’d spend time in his local library’s art section. Books on illustration and painting, he recalled, were right next to ...

An avatar, Instagram selfie or AI clone is enough for some people. But a growing number of Americans are going old school and having their portraits painted—and many are turning to Britain’s Royal ...

If you’ve ever winced at the gas pump or watched headlines about oil prices fluctuating wildly, you may have wondered: Should I be investing in oil? The truth is, oil remains one of the most powerful ...