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Behind the beauty of oil paintings is the hard labor of the artist. A classical work may take several weeks to months to be completed. Color pigments and binders are the constituents of the oil paints. Linseed oils, poppy seed oils, safflower oils and walnut oils are the oils to be mixed with the pigments. Brushes made up of different fibers are used to paint. Oil painting is said to consume a lot of work because it does not dry up easily, and if the artists wants to paint in layers, he must wait for the paints to dry at each level which may devour a week. The oils employed would dry at their own pace. The artist will be able to make changes during the dry period of the painting, which is impossible in water paintings. Oil paintings do no dry through evaporation, they have to be oxidized. And then these paints are varnished after six months or a year. Some art conservators consider an oil painting to be dry only after its 60-80 years old.

Oil paintings reached the pinnacle during the renaissance, where artists began to select wooden panels as their base medium. They would stretch their canvas over the wooden panel. Artists used a variety of brushes to produce different kinds of unique effects, knives and blades were also used. Some artists painted with their fingers too.

In art, an underpainting is an initial layer of paint applied to a ground, which serves as a base for subsequent layers of paint. Underpaintings are often monochromatic and help to define colour values for later painting. There are several different types of underpainting, such as verdaccio and grisaille.

Underpainting gets its name because it is painting that is future to be painted over in a system of working in layers. There is a popular misconception that underpainting should be monochromatic, perhaps in gray-scales. In fact, a multi-color underpainting is much more useful and was used lengthily by artists such as Giotto, as well as by Jan van Eyck and Roger van der Weyden. This technique was pioneered by Titian in the High Renaissance. The colors of the underpainting can be optically mingled with the subsequent overpainting, without the danger of the colors physically blending and becoming muddy. If underpainting is done properly, it facilitates overpainting. If it seems that if one has to fight to obscure the underpainting, it is a sign that it was not done properly.

People are really good at making excuses and I'm no exception. I try not to accept my excuses though as they're usually pathetic, just like all of your excuses for not getting off your butt and doing what you really should be doing now.

Here's my pathetic excuses for not posting lately..

Here's a recent painting of Melbourne:

Unlike dance and music where the most attractive modes and sweetest strains disappear before they are understood, painting captures the emotions and appearances and retains the impact for a long period. Painting is an essentially a combination of lines, forms, colors, tones, texture and space. It attempts to convey the spoken and unspoken appearances with the strokes of a brush.

Painting styles differ from regions to regions, and from periodto period. From prehistoric times to the period of civilizations, painting has been the visual documentation of man’s thoughts, and experiences. It has illustrated the walls of the caves, temples, and palaces, or dried leaved and cloth in the form of phadas, patachitras and coverlets.

Illustrated manuscripts in palm leaf folios in the medieval period were later replaced by paper. The painting of any given region and period provides an insight to the cerebral and cultural sensibilities of the people who executed them. The styles are influenced by the local traditions and cross-cultural interaction.

Like any other country, these factors were true for India too. Besides these, the unique geographical positioning of India, played a significant role in the flowering of distinct regional styles. The multihued painting traditions, which developed like the murals, Chaurapanchasika, miniatures, scroll painting, madhubani, lepakshi, etc contributed to the cultural legacy of India and laid the foundation of successive genres.Ethnicpaintings brings to you the varied painting styles from the treasure trove of India.They have their distinct painting style, regional and periodic characteristics. Browse through them and experience India in its arts.

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art created since World War II. The description of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art usually define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II.

Contemporary art is exhibited by commercial contemporary art galleries, private collectors, corporations, publicly funded arts organizations, contemporary art museums or by artists themselves in artist-run spaces. Contemporary artists are maintained by grants, awards and prizes as well as by direct sales of their work.

There are close connections between publicly funded contemporary art organizations and the commercial sector. For instance, in Britain a handful of dealers represent the artists featured in leading publicly funded contemporary art museums.

Individual collectors can wield substantial influence. Charles Saatchi has dominated the contemporary art market in Britain since the 1980s; the subtitle of the 1999 book Young British Artists: The Saatchi Decade uses of the name of the private collector to define whole decade of contemporary art production.

Here is list of some famous expensive paintings that ever sold according to our survey. This blog contains the details like name of painting, artist drawn it, a brief detail about the painting and the cost of the painting. Millions and Hundreds of Millions of dollars are spent every year for these paintings.

This is most expensive painting that ever sold:

Pollock had painted this painting with his own unique style in the Post-War climate that was a radical departure from his peers.

No. 5, which was painted in 1948, is was one of his most basic examples of drip painting, which consisted of using his body to move the paint over the canvas.

The details of this painting sale were kept very private, but rumor has it that the buyer is Mexican financier and art collector David Martinez, and that he paid a huge $140 million, which with inflation now totals $142.7 million.