Canvas tacks are used to pin down the canvas on a stretcher frame. A stretched canvas covers the sides of the frame and tacks are driven in evenly along the edges to fix the canvas with equal tension to the frame. By removing the tacks, a canvas c

An oil dipper is a small container that holds painting oil medium for oil painting. Oil painting often uses drying oil, volatile oil, and other painting oil mediums to alter the stretch and luster of the actual paint. Just as they have quick acces

Oil paint brushes have fine tips that mix well with oil and let artists take advantage of the viscosity, transparency, and other unique qualities of oil paint. With fine tips made of various types of animal hair and a diverse range of shapes and size

Oil paint, mostly made by kneading together pigment and drying oil that sets the pigment in place, features a distinctive luster and transparency that only oil can create, a degree of plasticity that enables expressive touch and piling, and a gradual

Brush-cleaning fluid is a solution made from refined oil and used to clean oil paint brushes. To use brush-cleaning fluid, pour enough of the fluid into your container (a brush-cleaning container) to submerge the heads of the brushes in the fluid. Wh

An oil paint brush-cleaning container is filled with brush-cleaning solution and used to remove oil paint from brushes. Generally, the brush-cleaning container is a small bucket of a moderate depth, allowing it to be filled with cleaning solution

Canvas stretching tools (canvas pliers) are pinching tools used when preparing a stretched canvas as a medium, particularly for oil painting. When stretching the canvas (painting surface) onto the wooden frame, attach the canvas using tacks (canva

The construction of a stretched canvas, which is used primarily in oil painting, is (as the name implies) a canvas that has been stretched and affixed to a wooden frame. Artists can easily stretch canvases themselves in various forms and sizes depend

A canvas is a medium for oil painting made of cloth woven from the fibers such as flax, the top surface of which has been treated. The word can also refer to such a cloth after it has been attached to a wooden rectangle (a stretched canvas). Compa

Essential oils, including turpentine and mineral spirits, are used as solvents when making one's own varnish, because of their efficacy in adjusting the viscosity and thickness of oil-based paints, accelerating drying, diluting drying oils, and disso

Drying oils, including linseed oil and poppy oil, are used in painting in order to adjust the thickness of the paints, improve their stretchability, increase the fixativity of the paints to the surface, and give oil paints their characteristic luster

Art solutions (extracted oils) are supplementary paint solutions used when painting with oil-based paints. They are able to enhance the expressiveness of paints and to produce various effects. There are a variety of solutions used for various purp

Linseed oil is used in painting to increase the fixing strength of oil paints, adjust their thickness and viscosity, and to enhance luster. It is also blended into paints as the fixing ingredient (medium) to affix the pigment to the surface of the pa

Painting knives are small, spatula-shaped painting tools used primarily in oil painting. They allow for bold applications of paint that differ from those of a brush, such as paint clumping, paint flattening, paint smoothing, and paint scraping. Pa

Palette knives are spatula-shaped tools used primarily in the composition of oil paintings, to mix, remove, and spread paints and mediums on palettes. Palette knives are long, thin spatulas, or “blades,” of roughly 6-15 centimeters in length, whic

Stretcher frames are the rectangular wooden frames upon which canvases, primarily those used as the surfaces for oil paintings, are stretched. They are also known as canvas frames. The fundamental structure of a stretcher frame is made up of wood