Oil paints are a type of paint made with natural oils such as linseed, walnut, or poppy, as the medium

to bind the pigment. Oil paints dry slowly, allowing an artist time to rework and blend colors.

A yellowish oil extracted from the seeds of flax and used as a drying oil in paints and varnishes and in linoleum, printing inks, and synthetic resins.
The term used for a thin, transparent layer of paint, particularly in oil painting and acrylics. Glazes are used on top of one another to build up depth and modify colors in a painting. A glaze must be completely dry before another is applied on top Impasto is a way of applying paint, specifically a thick, textured application of paint where the marks made by the brush or painting knife stay visible. Impasto is evident in the work of artists such as Vincent van Gogh.

Dry brush A painting technique in which, as the name suggests, a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied, it produces a broken, scratchy effect. Scumbling is a painting technique where a thin or broken layer of color is brushed over another so that patches of the color beneath show through. It's done using adry brush, or by dabbing at the surface with a rough sponge or crumpled cloth dipped in a little paint. Gesso The initial coating put on a support before you paint on it. It protects the support from the paint, some of which contain components that could damage it, provides the key (surface) for the paint to stick to, and affects the absorbency of the support.

Stretcher In a fine-arts context, a stretcher is the wooden frame that canvas is stretched on and attached to. A stretcher can be bought ready-made as four bits that fit together, or you can make it yourself if you've some basic DIY skills. The initial or lowest layers of paint put down in a painting, before the details of the painting are put down. Some artists use underpainting to establish tonal values in a painting, effectively painting a monochrome version of the final painting to get all the tones right before adding color. Others use underpainting to establish areas of color as a first step in building up colors through glazes. Impressionist was an art movement that started in France around 1870 which attempted to capture the fleeting impressions or feeling of a scene, rather than detailed realism. An optical mix is when you create paint colors not by mixing them on the palette (or physically), but through knowledge of color theory and how the eye perceives colors that abut or overlay each other. Glazing is the most common optical mix technique used in painting. The salon

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a late 19th-century reaction to Impressionism, emphasizing on one hand the emotional aspect of painting and on the other a return to formal structure; the first led to Expressionism; the second, to Cubism. Post-Impressionist, n.
Pointillism is the painting technique in which dots of unmixed, pure color are juxtaposed on the canvas. The dots blend together in your eye to create tones when you look at the painting from a distance. The French Neo-Impressionist painter George Seurat is credited with developing Pointillism. A still life is a painting featuring an arrangement of inanimate, everyday objects, whether natural objects (flowers, food, wine, etc.) or manufactured items (books, bottles, crockery, etc.). TheTate Museum Glossary puts it very succinctly, defining the subject of a a still life as "anything that does not move or is dead".

The term avant-garde means, from the XIX th century , people who undertake new or experimental actions, particularly in the arts and culture. This practice draws on the ideas of the French Revolution and as she does not claim it as the characters established in the heart of political power and hostile to civil society.
n: Simply put, a picture plane is the canvas or piece of paper you're painting or drawing on. It's a term used most often in the context of perspective in a painting.

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