Eccentric Monk, Oil Painting by Fan Zhang

Eccentric Monk by Fan Zhang

ABOUT THIS ARTWORK:

Chinese Oil Painting

Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel or copper for several centuries. Oil painting allows artists to express themselves through colour, texture and form the slow drying time of oil paints allows for blending and layering, giving artist the flexibility to convey emotions and ideas.

Technique:

Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder and consisting of pigments suspended in drying oils. The outstanding facility with which fusion of tones or colour is achieved makes it unique among fluid painting mediums; at the same time, satisfactory linear treatment and crisp effects are easily obtained.

油画是以用快干性的植物油（亚麻仁油、罂粟油、核桃油等）调和颜料，在画布（亚麻布）、纸板或木板上进行制作的一个画种。作画时使用的稀释剂为挥发性的松节油和干性的亚麻仁油等。画面所附着的颜料有较强的硬度，当画面干燥后，能长期保持光泽。凭借颜料的遮盖力和透明性能较充分地表现描绘对象，色彩丰富，立体质感强。油画是西洋画的主要画种之一 油画，指用干的油调配的颜料所作的绘画