Technique #7: Use your palette knife If you don’t like watercolor, switch to oil painting techniques. When painting with oils, artists use palette knives to create smooth transitions.

“This is the earliest clear example of oil paintings in the world, although drying oils were already used by ancient Romans and Egyptians, but only as medicines and cosmetics," said researcher ...

Oil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil ...