Oil paint
Choose oil paint for your painting size, colour use and preferred handling. A small set helps you start a palette; individual tubes replenish colours you use often. Compare the volume per tube and pigment, opacity and lightfastness information for each colour, rather than relying on the range name.
A suitable foundation for your painting
Use a surface prepared for oil painting and choose brushes with suitable shape and spring. Try the paint straight from the tube first. For different flow or drying behaviour, use one medium explicitly compatible with your oil paint and follow its mixing instructions.
Plan the layers and drying: touch-dry does not mean a painting is ready for final varnish. Arrange ventilation and safe collection of oily cloths before starting.
Our oil-painting beginners’ guide with a first study and practice record helps you compare materials without buying a full studio setup at once.
