Best of Exhibition prize for Chatfield

Thursday, 27 November 2008, 23:30 | Category : Oil Paintings News
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Queenstown artist Jackie Chatfield won the top $2000 Best of
Exhibition prize for her acrylic painting titled Dreams, at
the Queenstown Art Society’s Locations Art Awards night on
Friday.
Barbara Smith, of Queenstown, won Best Traditional Art for
her oil painting Shotover, The Branches.
Karen Scot, of Kingston, won Best Contemporary Art for her
acrylic Crossing Foveaux.
Queenstown [...]

Material and tools of oil painting

Thursday, 27 November 2008, 19:22 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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The main Material and tools are pigments, paintbrush, painting knife, canvas, oil polish, outer frame and etc.
- Pigments, there are mineral substance and chemical synthesis these two broad kinds. The initial pigments most were mineral substance pigments, which made by hand lapping into dead small, and harmonized when drawing. The modern times pigments was put [...]

For sale: A very English view of Wales painted by a Scots artist

Thursday, 27 November 2008, 15:31 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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IT captured a quintessentially English view of 19th-century Welshness and would influence countless picture-postcard images of Wales.
Scottish artist William Dyce’s painting, Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting, could fetch between £200,000 and £300,000 at auction tomorrow.
The oil painting, completed around 1860, was one of the most celebrated pieces in a collection owned by Sir David [...]

Dürer’s Engraved Passion on display

Thursday, 27 November 2008, 12:22 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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Some artwork is hard to miss. François-André Vincent’s dramatic 1791 oil painting, Zeuxis Choosing His Models for the Image of Helen from Among the Girls of Croton, will be an obvious showstopper in the Cantor Center for Visual Art’s current exhibition, which focuses on the museum’s newest acquisitions.
Dürer to Picasso opened last week and continues [...]

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