An oil painting is a picture painted with oil paint. The oil paint, which can be bought in tubes or cans nowadays, is usually painted with brushes or spatulas on a picture carrier. Usually wooden boards, cardboard or traditional canvases mounted on stretcher frames are used as picture carriers.
Paintings
Oil painting - Structures of paint application
Oil paintings are also called paintings. The term "painting" is derived from "painted" - a work painted with paint on a support. In former times, painted coins or plates were also called paintings. Nowadays, a painting is only a (high-quality, old, valuable) oil painting.
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- Overview of Oil Painting
- Introduction to Oil Painting (Tutorial)
- History of oil painting
- Oil Paint: Ingredients and Properties
Oil paintings by Martin Missfeldt
Some exemplary oil paintings of mine, subjective selection, chronological. The pictures come from these galleries (work groups):
- Early oil paintings from school (1985 - 1988)
- Landscapes (1989)
- Trees between rails (1989 - 90)
- Oil Paintings Animals (1986 - 1990)
- Conceptual oil paintings: Visual perception (1993)
- Humorous Oil Paintings - Fun Painting (1992 - 1994)
- Free painting, funny oil paintings, abstract paintings (1991 - 1993)
- New Oil paintings (2019)
1984
"Bird (any finch)", 14 x 19 cm, oil on wood, 1984
1985
"Parrots", 100 x 70 cm, oil on canvas, 1985
1985
"Old house in Normandy", 42 x 50 cm, oil on wood, 1986
1988
"Skull Study", 80 x 50 cm, oil on wrapping paper, 1988
1988
"Still Life with Bottles", 100 x 70 cm, oil on canvas, 1988
1989
"Sunset", 130 x 100 cm, oil on canvas, 1989
1989
"Birch in autumn 89", 100 x 70 cm, oil on canvas, 1989
1992
"Giraffe on yellow", 53 x 34 cm, oil on canvas, 1992
1993
"Rods and Cones", 240 x 140 cm, oil on canvas, 1993
1994
"Swimming pool in Itzehoe", 150 x 180 cm, oil on canvas, 1994
2015
"The Tomb of the Unknown Painter", 70 x 100 cm, oil on canvas, 19.9.2015