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Want to find oil paints for your next art project? Take a look through our excellent range of oil paints and find the ones your need. Best part is, you can get oil paints by some of the best paint brands all at discounted prices! Save money buying oil paints without having to compromise on quality. Order now and have it delivered to you!
Lefranc & Bourgeois Artists' Oil Paint
Oil Paints
FROM $10.70
FAQs about Oil Paint Supplies
How Long Does Oil Paint Take To Dry?
Oil paints take a long time to dry, especially more than common acrylic paints. This is due to the solvents that are often included when using oil paints. Oil paints can only dry once the solvents in the paint oxidise. This process can take over 24 hours, even up to 12 days for oil paints to fully dry.
How Do You Tell If Paint Is Oil Based?
There are a few ways to know if a paint is oil-based. Highly textured and layered paintings are common features of oil based paintings.
Aside from the long dry times, oil paints tend to have a glossy finish, so you can change for that to see if oil paint has been used.
Can You Use Oil Paint On Top Of Acrylic Paint?
For the most part, you should not mix oil paints and acrylic paints together before adding them to your canvas. Acrylic paints contain water while oil paints contain oil, so inherently these two don't work well together as have different properties and different needs, like drying times and varnish needs.
Though, if you want to paint one over the other, that is totally possible. However, it is best to paint oils over acrylics rather than the other way around.
How Can I Make Oil Paint Dry Faster?
Using an oil medium such as Linseed oil, Galkyd or Walnut Alkyd can make oil paint dry faster. If you are unsure, you can check the labels on the package to see if it indicates that it is quick drying. Quick drying mediums can fully dry your paint overnight.
Oil paints are a wonderfully versatile artistic medium and is a favoured classic over the years with many famous painters preferring oil paints. The paints are durable and bring rich vibrant colour to the canvas.
The drying time for oil paints is generally longer than acrylic paints, which allows for artists to use a variety of painting techniques like glazing, scumbling, impasto, blending and many more. This also means artists can easily rework and fix any mistakes easily, even scraping off the oil paint if need be.
Oil paint is composed of pigments that are suspended in oil, usually linseed oil. Due to the nature of oil, oil paints do not work well with water so to clean brushes or thin the consistency of the paint the artist will need to use turpentine or white spirit.
While oil paints have a rich and luscious pigment, they are rather smelly as are the fluids needed to clean your oil paint brushes. The fumes from substances like turpentine can be hazardous, potentially causing dizziness and respiratory issues. This being the case, means it is best to use oil paints in a well-ventilated area.
Oil paints offer flexibility and a depth of colour that is unparalleled. Applied in many different ways, from thin glazes diluted with turpentine to dense thick impasto, the versatility of oil painting has had artists hooked for years.
When you shop oil paints with Discount Art N Craft Warehouse, you not only get the best oil paints, but the best prices too. We pride ourselves on supplying Australia’s favourite brands at everyday low prices, which include Winsor & Newton, Reeves, Art Spectrum, Lefranc & Bourgeois, Shiva and Sennelier.
Oil products we supply include paint, oilbars, oil paint sticks, beginner sets and travel sets.
Shopping oil paints is easy and affordable with Discount Art N Craft Warehouse and we encourage you to browse the full range of oil products. As well as paint, bars and sticks, we also supply paint brushes, aprons, easels, storage chests, mobile drying racks, colour mixing guides, brush holders, sponges and so much more, so explore our accessories too while you’re here.
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