Linseed oil is extracted from flax seeds, and the quality of the resulting product largely depends on the place of cultivation of seeds, their maturity and purity. Thus, the oil obtained from weed seeds contains an admixture of rapeseed, rapeseed and other oils. The oil squeezed out without heating the seeds is light and has a golden yellow color; when hot…

The basis for painting is any physically existing material or surface on which paints are applied: metal, wood, fabric, paper, brick, stone, plastic, vellum paper (thin parchment, wax, tracing paper), parchment, plaster, glass. However, only a few of them represent the traditional foundations for oil painting; they are divided into two groups: elastic…

A Ring – More Than Just Metal Have you ever wondered what kind of soul antique jewelry carries within? How, seemingly silent, it whispers the stories of vanished dynasties, saturates everyday life with aristocratic brilliance, and sometimes abruptly becomes a symbol of epochal shifts in culture? Few realize that behind the slender band of a bracelet or the…

Canvases by artists using oil paints are the most popular. Technique a la prima - "raw", without under-painting — in which, even after the first session, the artist writes on a non-dried layer or refreshes the drying film that appeared on it in a certain way. This is the first and most common method a la prima.