Oil paints truly run the gamut in terms of quality and price. The best of them consist of carefully sourced, top-quality pigments that are milled, typically by hand, into consistent batches of ...

Unlike other paints, oil paint does not dry by evaporation — it goes through a curing process where oxidation can take days to months to fully set the paint. The addition of egg yolk added even more ...

Many artists since Messina have also altered their recipes for oil paint, including Leonardo da Vinci, who liked to add a bit of beeswax to keep the color light. Illustration of Jan Van Eyck at ...