What are the art supplies

Art supplies are: easels, oil brushes, oil knives, paints, pencils and so on.

1, easel

Easel refers to a free-standing structure, the artist in the painting used to support the canvas (CANVAS) or board (PANEL) and designed. The easel used in a studio is usually made of four strips of hard wood fastened to a square or rectangular base fitted with foot wheels, with two sturdy stanchions crossing at the top, and diagonal struts in the center back.

2, oil paintbrush

Oil paintbrush is a kind of oil painting painting tools, general brush is mostly wooden, bristles for pig bristle, there are a few wolf hair and chemical fiber. According to the shape of the nib pen round pen, flat pen, fan pen, row pen, etc. According to the size of the pen is divided into 12 types of models, from small to large were 1 # -12 #, in addition there are also some large size.

3, oil painting knife

Oil painting knife is a tool for oil painting and gouache painting, also known as oil painting scraper, is commonly used painting tools. The blade is mostly steel, there are also plastic products, generally do not have a sharp edge. There are wooden handles, divided into small and large models.

4, pigment

Pigment is the substance that can make the object color. There are soluble and insoluble pigments, and there is a difference between inorganic and organic. Inorganic pigments are generally mineral substances, and humans have known to use inorganic pigments for a very long time, using colored earths and ores to paint and coat bodies on rock walls. Organic pigments are generally taken from plants and marine animals, such as cynthia blue, garcinia cambogia and the purple color extracted from shellfish in ancient Rome.

5, pencil

Pencil, is a kind of writing as well as painting and sketching special pens, more than four hundred years ago, which, painting and sketching pencil is divided into a number of types, it is divided into three stages of development, divided into graphite, wooden pencil, hooded pencils; In addition, it has red and white, black and white, yellow and black and other colors of the stripes.