Before creating a painting of any kind—whether you're using oils, acrylics or tempera paints—it's important to apply a primer to the surface upon which you're painting. One type of painting surface ...

When German artist Markus Amm applies oil paint to his canvas, he has an innate sense of what the result will be. Pigments, oil, thinner and binding agents run over gesso boards to create vivid layers ...

Illusionism in painting is long past being a given, yet there is still something exhilarating about work that breaks the fourth wall and brings us into the game — art that fixes our attention on how ...