A painting is simply the practice and art of applying paint, color, and/ or pigment to a surface. A brush is usually the most common medium use to apply the paint, but there are others like a stick, fingers, fruits or stones. Painting surfaces include the canvas, wall, paper, wood, clay, copper, leaf, concrete, stone, and lacquer (colored or clear wood which dries by evaporation to bring out a shine, hard, durable and high gloss surface)

The different color media range from oil, where , color pigments are bound with drying oil, Pastel painting, where the tool is a stick, and other binder that works with pure powdered pigment, Acrylic painting is the one that dries quickly and contains pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion. Pigments suspended in a water soluble surface or medium represent the Watercolor painting. Hot wax painting is one by fusing heated bees’ wax with color pigments. Many other paint types include the Gouache, Enamel, The Spray Paint, The Tempera and The Water miscible oil paint.

Evidence supports the claim that oil painting began in Afghnistan and India, mostly for religious and cultural purposes. Commercial Oil Painting, thereafter, started in early modern Europe. Linseed oil was the most common oil, attributed for its varnishing effects, body and gloss. Other oils which were used were the Walnut Oil (Extracted from Walnuts, and mostly used by the Renaissance artists. It dries quickly and lacks the Yellow pigment and thus can be used with a thinner). Also used is Safflower oil, and Poppy seed oil, which is edible oil extracted from Poppy seeds. It is the most popular oil because it is fast at drying and it is ‘sun-thickened’. It is used for thinning, varnishing and binding pigment.

Recently, water miscible paints have been used, and sometimes replaced the traditional oils. These new paints are soluble in water and have a faster time to dry, usually one to three days as opposed to the traditional oil that take up to six months. Famous paintings in oil include Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci,(1503-06), The Last Supper (1498), The Vitruvian Man (1485), Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck (1434), Le Moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876), Water Lilies, Claude Monet (1916), Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh (1890).

Many oil paintings have been reproduced and sold so that to ensure they are distributed worldwide and that clients can get almost the same quality, size and other features as the original paints. The most famous oil painting reproductions distributed include the works of Gustav Klimt, Vincent Van Gogh,Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Leornado da Vinci.

When an oil painting reproduction is created, the best medium to use is a brush, pigments in oil and painted on a cotton or linen canvas. Canvas art ensures quality, aesthetics, durability and functionality. Paper print reproductions exist but they are inferior in quality and value as opposed to the oil painting reproductions.
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