How to Keep the High-end Portrait Fresh Forever? (Part Two)

Second, it’s the best to place the high-end oil painting in the environment which is exposed to the natural light. If it’s stored in a light-proof place for a long time, the color layer of oil painting will turn out yellow phenomenon. If it’s exposed in the light for a long time also, the picture will have crack phenomenon. If your collections have already had some situations of yellow, dark or cracking, your artworks will lose its original artistic value and be depreciated at the same time. At this time, you should need the professionals’ help to amend them.

Furthermore, some conditions like a certain temperature and humidity are required in the high-end oil painting collection. In the house environment, we’d better put our collections in the room with small temperature and humidity changes to prevent the dramatic change of the environment. The most inadaptable places for storing the oil painting are kitchen, bathroom, balcony, and bedroom. Oil painting should be hung in the house of visible sunlight but not direct sun shot. When hanging, hoist the upper end to make it front tilted. That can prevent the surface undertaking a large amount of ash.

In fact, the reservation of oil painting collection is not so complicated. As long as we keep an appropriate environment, no matter how many the collections are, we can still keep them very well.

How to Keep the High-end Portrait Fresh Forever? (Part One)

Referring to oil painting, the most concerned problem is how to reserve it well. Nowadays oil painting has become the new favorite of artwork collection. It doesn’t only decorate the house environment, but also have the characteristics of preservation and appreciation, especially now more and more people will buy the custom-made portrait of themselves to hang on the walls of their villas or office.

Although the preserving time of oil painting is longer than the one of photos and it’s not afraid of the wind and the sun. Insiders also rarely talk about it. If it’s under the long-term sun exposure or get wet in the rain, it still needs special care to prevent the happen of oxidative changes.

First, like people, oil painting is born with a strong or weak foundation. What does that mean? It means that the canvas backing, the deployment of raw materials and the painting techniques have a great relationship with the life of the works. For the excellent works of the professional artists, the authors tend to attach great importance to this issue; therefore their works always have strong foundations. As the holders of high-end oil painting, we should have a further understanding to our own collection to solve the maintenance problem.

The Introduction of Oil Paint and Tools (Part B)

1. Pigments are divided into minerals and chemical synthesis. The initial pigment is mostly mineral pigment which is grinded into fine powder manually and harmonize only when it's used to paint. Nowadays, the pigments are produced massively by factories and loaded into tin tubes. Pigment species are also increasing. The performance of the pigments are related with the chemical composition. When mixing the color, chemical action will make some adverse reaction between the pigments. Therefore, to master the performance of the pigments are helpful to fully play the painting skills and make the works enduring. 
2. Brush. Usually the brush is made from animal wool and it includes several types like peak round type, flat front flat type, short front flat type and fan type etc..
3. Painting knife. It's also called palette knife, made from elastic stalloy. Sharp shape and round shape are two types of palette knife which is used to mix the pigments on the palette. Many artists would also use the knife as brush to paint on the canvas directly or paint some skin text partially to increase expressive force. 
4. Canvas. The standard canvas is to tight the linen or canvas on a wooden frame and use the glue or oil mixed with white powder to brush on it afterwards. Usually we will make the canvas oil-proof and has a certain grain effect, or make it half oil absorb or completely oil absorb under the needs of creation. Rough or fine of the grain effect can be decided according to the size of the picture and the painting effect. Some painters would like to use the besmeared canvas which is easy to unify the color tone of the picture, and they can reveal the impression unintentionally while painting. After the besmeared process, the oil-proof wood board or cardboard can also replace the canvas.
5. Glazing. Glazing is used to keep the picture gloss and prevent the air erosion and scale after the painting finished. 
6. Frame. A piece of complete oil painting includes the frame, especially the realistic painting. Frame is the boundary of the works showing to the viewer, which makes the picture complete and concentrated. The objects in the painting develops horizontally in the view's feeling. The thickness and size are depending on the painting's content. The frames of classical paintings are mainly made of wood and gypsum, while the frames of modern paintings are mostly made of aluminum alloy. 

The Introduction of Oil Paint and Tools (Part A)

Oil painting: is a kind of painting which uses linseed oil mixing with pigments to paint on a rough draft of the cloth, paper and board etc. to create artistic image. It's originated from Europe and it becomes one of the important painting styles in the modern world.

The generation of oil painting.

oil painting tools

Before the 15th century egg tempera is the predecessor of oil painting. At the same time while the egg tempera is in use, many artists continued to look for more ideal harmonic agent. Generally, van Eyck brothers in the early 15th century were deemed to be the founder of the oil painting techniques. On the basis of the attempt to dissolve the pigments with the oil, they used linseed oil and walnut oil as the harmonic agent to paint, which made the depiction fluent. The drying time of the pigments on the picture was moderate that multiple coverage and modification were much easier. After that, the painting took on rich color levels and gloss. Pigments had strong adhesion and was not easy to peel or fade. They used new painting pigments to create works that influenced the painting forum a lot. The oil painting techniques spread to other countries in Western Europe very quickly, and especially developed rapidly in Venice of Italy.

The materials and tools of oil painting.

The main materials and tools of oil painting include pigments, brush, painting knife, canvas, glazing oil and frame, etc..

Mix material windmill landscape

Modern decorative windmill abstract

Do you like the wonderful windmill landscape in Holland? Of course, there are most of people will like it as it is a really nice. Have you ever thought that make a nice oil painting according to the place? As I know, there are many traditional artists painted a lot of Realistic oil painting about windmill landscape, but there is few people tried to make it as abstract art. Today, let me show you how to paint a abstract windmill landscape as follow,

1. First of all, we should prepare some materials and tools such as: Canvas, acrylic oil paints, 3D effect paste, brushes, painting knife, spray bottle, stretcher, linen canvas and so on.
2. Step one, find a ventilation place which and stretch the painting canvas on the stretcher, usually, realistic artists will paint what they see on the canvas, but now we are making abstract art, we just paint the feeling what we see, it is enough, for this painting, we just need to put some 3D paste on the canvas as the tier one, then glue the linen canvas on it and hold it for a while till the 3D paste dry.
3. Use gray acrylic oil paints to paint the second tier. After the second tier dry, begin to paint the windmill landscape with black color acrylic oil paints on the top of the canvas(above the linen canvas) and paint the red and orange colors on the linen canvas as third tier.
4. The last step is to paint some white color on the top landscape and linen canvas, then use the spry bottle to get some golden color to spray on the linen canvas.

Let all of the material dry enough, a amazing artwork come out.