The tin tube was more resilient than ... unchanged since the Renaissance. Since oil paints were time-consuming to produce and quick to dry out, artists prepared only a few colors to work with ...

Three artists agreed to answer my three questions ... a scratched stainless steel table with a mix of oil paint tubes and oranges, and more. The intention was “to appear as if caught amid ...

While the rise of oil paint is associated with the Renaissance, paintings using poppy-seed oil have been dated as far back as seventh-century Afghanistan. But there's one key reason this paint ...