Oil Painting Techniques
Technique↕ | Origin Era↕ | Difficulty↕ | Famous Practitioner↕ | Signature Work↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Impasto | 17th century | Intermediate | Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night (1889) |
Glazing | 15th century | Advanced | Jan van Eyck | Arnolfini Portrait (1434) |
Scumbling | 16th century | Intermediate | J.M.W. Turner | The Fighting Temeraire (1839) |
Alla Prima | 19th century | Advanced | John Singer Sargent | Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1886) |
Chiaroscuro | Renaissance | Advanced | Caravaggio | The Calling of Saint Matthew (1600) |
Sfumato | 15th century | Advanced | Leonardo da Vinci | Mona Lisa (1503) |
Grisaille | 14th century | Intermediate | Peter Paul Rubens | Samson and Delilah grisaille (1609) |
Underpainting | Renaissance | Intermediate | Titian | Venus of Urbino (1538) |
Wet-on-Wet | 16th century | Intermediate | Bob Ross | The Joy of Painting (1983) |
Pointillism | 19th century | Advanced | Georges Seurat | A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1886) |
Broken Color | 19th century | Intermediate | Claude Monet | Impression, Sunrise (1872) |
Palette Knife | 19th century | Intermediate | Gustave Courbet | The Desperate Man (1843) |
Fat Over Lean | Traditional | Intermediate | Rembrandt van Rijn | The Night Watch (1642) |
Tenebrism | 17th century | Advanced | Artemisia Gentileschi | Judith Slaying Holofernes (1620) |
Glaze and Wipe | Baroque | Advanced | Diego Velazquez | Las Meninas (1656) |
Drip Painting | 20th century | Intermediate | Jackson Pollock | No. 5, 1948 |
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