Oil paint
What is the technique of oil painting, how to make an oil painting, what are the necessary materials to make an oil painting?

Materials used in oil painting: canvas, easel, oil paint brushes, painting oil, linseed oil, turpentine, spatula, palette, oil painting papers, oil paint medium, oil paint varnish etc. Let's get to know these products and their features in order.

The answer we will give to the question of what is oil paint is briefly; These are the paints produced for oil painting technique by mixing the pigments with some special liquids, crushing and rolling them. Oil paint is a dense pasty material with flexible properties that does not shrink when dry. Oil paint consists of oil, pigment, turpentine and binders. As binders, in oil paint: linseed oil or poppy oil, resin, beeswax and turpentine are used. Oil paint is a paint with concealer feature. Since Oil Paint is oil-based, it dries late, can be thinned with turpentine, and brushes can be washed with chemicals such as turpentine and thinner. Oil paint is the most advantageous painting technique as it dries slowly, allows for overlapping and corrections at every stage of the work. It can be applied with a brush or spatula. Its density can be changed with turpentine and oil.

Linen oil and similar oils used in oil paint production dry out leaving a thin layer on the surface. In addition, solvents are used to ensure that the oil paint has a certain consistency for easy application, drying agents are used to accelerate drying, and mediums that adjust the degree of gloss or opacity are used. When oil paint is applied to the picture, it evaporates and the drying oil oxidizes to form a solid, dry layer. Catalysts called "driers" or "accelerators" are also added to the paint to make it dry faster. Also, topcoat and binder etc. as a concealer into the oil paint. chemicals are also included.

The quality of the oil paint is determined by the quality of the pigments used in the production stage, the quality of the oil, solvent, resin and mediums used, the crushing stage of the paint and the number of times it is rolled. The quality, color and brightness of oil paints vary according to the purity of the pigment used and the material from which it is obtained. The characteristics of a quality oil paint can be listed as follows: the brightness of the paint, the clarity of the paint, its covering property, its good crushing, easy application, and being produced from high quality pigments.

Pigments can be mineral or organic, natural or synthetic. Today, synthetic pigments are generally used. The materials that hold the pigments together by making them sticky are called binders. Binders allow the paint to adhere to the canvas. Oils used in oil paint production do not evaporate by evaporation like water, but dries by oxidation, that is, by absorbing oxygen from the air. Linseed oil dries easily but is prone to yellowing. Poppy oil is transparent, does not turn yellow, but dries late.

Oil paints according to these properties:

* Student type oil paints

* Studio (professional) oil paints

* Artist can be classified as oil paints.

In recent years, for students and asthma etc. Water-based oil paints and fast-drying Alkyd oil paints have been produced for those with ailments.

Oil paints are usually sold in tubes of the following dimensions:

* In 37-38 ml tubes. For example; Winsor&Newton Winton Oil Paints, Pebeo XL Huile Fine, Daler Rowney Georgian Oil Paints, Lukas Studio Oil Paints, Lukas 1862 Artist Oil Paints, Schmincke Mussini Artist Oil Paints

* In 40 ml tubes. For example; Van Gogh, Sennelier Professional Oil Paints, Lefranc&Bourgeois Fine Oil Paints, Rembrandt Oil Paints

*In 45 ml tubes. For example; Phoenix Oil Paint

* In 60 ml tubes. For example; Maimeri Classico Oil Paint

* In 75 ml tubes. For example; Daler Rowney Georgian Oil Painting

* In 180 ml tubes. For example; Phoenix Oil Paint

* In 200 ml tubes. For example; Winsor&Newton Winton Oil Paints, Schmicke Akademie Oil Paints, Pebeo XL Huile Fine Oil Paints, Maimeri Classico Oil Paints

* In 225 ml tubes. For example; Daler Rowney Georgian Oil Painting

* In 500 ml jars. Black, white colors and primary colors are available.

You can get all the oil paint brands listed above at affordable prices on our website www.ankasanat.com.

There is information on the oil paint tubes indicating the properties of that oil paint. Each pigment has different drying time, lightfastness, opaqueness or transparency.

It shows these and similar features with some shapes on the paints.

* * or + signs ** showing the resistance of the pigment from which the paint is produced against light in external factors** light fastness is low

*** light fastness medium

**** Artist series paints with high light fastness

***** in Artist series paints with very high light fastness

Signs indicating whether oil paint is concealer or transparent

* ■ Concealing

* ◩ Semi-covering