Tempera is a type of paint made using egg yolk. It is still used today by some artists but it was very popular in ancient Egypt as well as d...

I have already written about oil paints . You know that artists used to have to grind minerals into powder and then mix the powder with oil ...

Watercolors paints are made by mixing pigment with water. Because they aren’t made with oil, watercolors are easier to clean up but the colo...

Until the mid-1800s, artists had to buy the ingredients separately and mix their own paints. This involved grinding colored minerals into pi...

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter, born in Delft in 1632. He began his career in the arts when his father died and Vermeer inherited the ...