Material and tools of oil painting
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 into mass productions by factory, stored in the tin pipe, its types also unceasingly increase. Pigment’s performance has a relation with the chemical composition it contains, when mixing colors, the chemical action can cause untoward effect among some pigments. Therefore, grasping pigment’s performance is helpful in fully displaying oil painting’s skill and keeps the color of works unvarying.
- Paintbrush, which made of elastic moderate animal’s hair, has the types like spike circular, even front flat, short front flat and fan-shaped and etc.
- Painting knife, also called the palette knife, is made of high resilient stalled. There has divisions of sharp shape and round shape, and is used in mixing pigments on color palette. Many painters also used knife instead of paintbrush, they draw directly with the knife or forms the pigment stratification plane, texture partially on the canvas to enhance the expressive force.
- Canvas, a standard canvas is ties tight the linen or the canvas behind the lignin inner edge, and then use the rubber or the oil mixed the heroin powder mixes and coats on the superficial of canvas to become one canvas. Generally they make a bottom with non-blot and have the certainly woven effect, either make the bottom with partly blots or blots completely if needed. The think of the woven is decided according to the size of painting, also according to the need of painting effect. Some painters use that canvas that have been spread color on bottom, which can easily form the color tone of painting and can revel the bottom color when painting.
- Oil polish, usually we do the oil polish after the oil painting has been finished and get dry, which can keep the glossiness of picture, and prevents the air corrosion and the accumulated dirt.
- Outer frame, a completed oil painting including an outer frame, especially strong practical oil paintings, the outer frame forms a sight boundary for viewer towards the work, which can make picture looks complete, centralized, the physical image in the picture give viewer a feel of deep. The thickness and size should choose according to the work content. Most of the classical oil painting’s outer frames are made of wood and plaster, while modern oil paintings’ are mostly choose aluminum alloy and other metallic material.
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