Before the Renaissance, the landscape performed a decorative function. But before the landscape became the bearer of the idea and before it began to help reveal the character of the main characters, and even more so gained independence, a very long time passed. For the first time, we see the image of nature on the reliefs of ancient civilizations that arose…

Oils used in painting are divided into two groups according to their composition and purpose. The first includes the so-called fatty drying oils obtained from the seeds of various plants and related to fats of vegetable origin, such as linseed, poppy, nut and other similar oils. The second group includes oils of various origins that do not belong to fats,…

Linseed oil is extracted from flax seeds, and the quality of the resulting product largely depends on the place of cultivation of seeds, their maturity and purity. Thus, the oil obtained from weed seeds contains an admixture of rapeseed, rapeseed and other oils. The oil squeezed out without heating the seeds is light and has a golden yellow color; when hot…

The basis for painting is any physically existing material or surface on which paints are applied: metal, wood, fabric, paper, brick, stone, plastic, vellum paper (thin parchment, wax, tracing paper), parchment, plaster, glass. However, only a few of them represent the traditional foundations for oil painting; they are divided into two groups: elastic…