Further explanation
Oil paints are made by mixing pigments that contain color with oil. Different colors consist, or today buy pre-mixed, before the painting begins, but further shades of color are usually obtained by mixing small quantities together as the painting process is ongoing, traditionally on an artist's palette, thin wooden boards held in hand. Pigments may be a number of natural or synthetic ingredients with colors, such as sulfur for yellow or cobalt for blue. Traditional pigments are based on minerals or plants, and many have proven stable over a very long period, so many old paintings look very different from their original appearance. Modern pigments are often used synthetic chemicals. Pigments are mixed with oil, usually flaxseed oil but other oils can be used too. Different dry oils have different effects.
Traditionally, artists mixed their own paint from raw pigments that they often ground themselves and are medium sized. This makes portability difficult and continues most of the painting activities are limited to the studio. This changed in the 1800s, when oil paints in tubes became widely available following a portrait of American painter John Goffe Rand's invention of metal tubes easily influenced or folded in 1841, the year of Claude Monet's birth. Artists can mix colors quickly and easily, which allows, for the first time, a relatively comfortable (outdoor) plein plane of painting (a common approach in French impressionism).
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Class: high school
Subject: arts
Keywords : Oil paints, color, pigments
