Today's Wildlife Paintings
You can pay some very hefty prices for a wildlife painting - it certainly pays to shop around. It should always be on a web shopper's list to check ebay - not only will you save money on private party wildlife paintings, but the prices on new ones can be well below what you find elsewhere, even on the net. Merchants use ebay as a way to sell excess, last year's merchandise, etc.
Why mess around with a lesser painting, when you can pay the same low prices you pay for a budget wildlife painting, but get the higher quality artwork you really want? On ebay, you'll find trusted sellers who specialize in oil paintings - check their feedback ratings, experience, etc. before you buy, and you'll have virtually no risk.
About Wildlife Paintings
Wildlife paintings cover a wide range - from ducks, swans on the lake to menacing big cat and jungle scene paintings. You can narrow your search by entering the type of wildlife painting you're looking for, or just browse the entire selection. There are many colorful parrot paintings, for instance, if that's what you want. Horse paintings sre very plentiful - you should do a search for them individually if that's what you're after.
Types of Paintings
Oil versus Acrylic
The main difference between acrylics and oil paints is the inherent drying time. Oils allow for more time to blend colors and apply even glazes over underpaintings. This slow drying aspect of oil can be seen as an advantage for certain techniques, but in other regards it impedes the artist trying to work quickly. The fast evaporation of water from the acrylic paint film can be slowed with the use of retarders. Retarders are generally glycol or glycerine based additives. In the case of acrylic paints, the addition of a retarder slows the evaporation rate of the water, and allows for more water to be added and the paint workable, until the retarder has left the film and the paint layer is dry.
Although the permanency of acrylics is sometimes debated by conservators, they appear more stable than oil paints. Whereas oil paints normally turn yellow as they age/dry(oxidize)—and require a removable protective layer of varnish—acrylic paints, at least in the 50 years since their invention, have not yellowed, cracked, or altered.
Giclée
Giclée, commonly pronounced "zhee-clay," is an invented name for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing The term is often used instead of Inkjet in art shops. The word "giclée", from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print.
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