Always go with oil if you are unsure about what medium to use while creating your commissioned portrait. Oil paints are favored by the majority of our customers because of their adaptability and brilliant color.
The art form of painting with oil has been practiced for many years. Painting with oil is one of the most well-known and highly regarded kinds of artistic expression. Oil paints have a long history of being a medium appreciated by great painters and were used to create many of the most well-known paintings in the world, including the Mona Lisa.
Compared to other painting mediums and materials, oil paints are distinguished by their superior tones and hues, which are produced by the paints' pigments. Oil paints, like other types of color, can also produce linear treatments and sharp results that are satisfying. Even while oil paints are more substantial than many other painting materials, such as ink or watercolor, they can create works with varying degrees of transparency, opacity, and translucence. Unexpectedly, oil paint comes in a wide variety of colors. Additionally, using this kind of paint may result in an incredible variety of texture effects in a painting.
Oil paints may be applied in a wide variety of methods, ranging from impastos that are thick and dense to glazes that are very thin and diluted with turpentine. Because it dries at a considerably slower rate than other forms of paint, painters have a much more extended period in which they may continue working with the paint. Because of this, there will be more opportunities for mixing and layering. The artist can produce a greater depth of color and a wide variety of tonal transitions and tones while using oils as their medium. In point of fact, oil colors do not undergo any discernible transformations once they have dried, and it is possible to achieve opaque and translucent effects, in addition to matte and glossy finishes. Oils enable magnificent effects of light and color and a much-increased degree of realism.