Oil paint is simple. It's just a mixture of oil and pigment. But depending on the color and quality, a liter of this paint could cost up to $1,100.

Oil-based paint consists of pigments suspended in oil. Although different types of drying oils can be used as the base of oil ...

In my role as a master paint-maker, I make oil paint, which are made by dispersing pigments in a “drying oil” such as linseed, walnut, poppy or safflower oils. Linseed oil is by far the most ...

Some Renaissance artists created eggs-quisite paintings by adding yolks to oil paints, ... the yolk created sturdy links between pigment particles, resulting in stiffer paint.

The true culprits instead are positively charged metal ions, such as zinc and lead, present in paint pigments. Over time these react with negatively charged components of oil called fatty acids ...