Oil paint is wonderfully versatile. It can be applied in thick, expressive impastos, or thinned down and used almost like watercolours. It can be brushed or scrubbed, knifed on or scratched out, ...

Brushes with famous stars illuminate his career, yet he prefers to teach a 400-year-old technique to local painters. International artist Cotti was commissioned by Orson Welles, Josephine Baker and ...

A painting by Chinese oil painting artist Huang Yue. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] For over a millennium, Chinese artists have been using ink to express the beauty of flowers and birds. Artist Huang Yue ...

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 ...