The oil painting has unique character-like properties that speak to you differently from other art forms or photography.
The oil paint is different in flexibility and depth of color and can be applied in many ways, from thin glazes diluted with turpentine, or linseed oil, to a dense, thick paste. Because it is slow to dry, artists can continue working on the paint for much longer than other types of paint. This provides a more significant opportunity for blending and layering. Oils also allow the artist to create a more extraordinary richness of color and a wide range of transitions in intensity and shades. The colors do not change noticeably after drying, and it is possible to produce both opaque and transparent effects, as well as gloss finishes with stunning effects of light, color, and a different realism.
Oil paint reacts and dries chemically with oxygen in the air, gradually changing from a liquid to a gel and finally becoming hard. Some colors dry at different rates, and the paint can be applied and then reworked, and application can be with a brush, knife, cloth, toothpick, or whatever works.
