The Blue Boy is a full-length portrait in oil by Thomas Gainsborough, owned by The Huntington in San Marino, California.
The Blue Boy
Van Dyck's portrait of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and Lord Francis Villiers
Cover Premier Issue Blueboy Magazine, 1974
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, spreading from Europe to the rest of the world. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser colour, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark". But the process is slower, especially when one layer of paint needs to be allowed to dry before another is applied.
Mona Lisa was created by Leonardo da Vinci using oil paints during the Renaissance period in the 15th century.
Thin blade used for the application or removal of paint. Can also be used to create a mixture of various pigments.
A section of the earliest discovered oil paintings (~ 650AD) depicting buddhist imagery in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
A detail from the oldest oil paintings in the world (~ 650 AD), a series of Buddhist murals created in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
