Oil Paints

Here at Jerry's Artarama, we are proud to offer one of the widest selections of beginner, artist & professional quality oil paints on sale. Oil paints are known for being durable and holding their color for a long time and are slow to dry, which allows and artist to rework the paint to achieve the desired effect. Many artists today consider oil painting to be the fundamental art medium. Oil paints (oil-based paint) are highly regarded in the artist community and one of the most versatile forms of painting. Oil paints gives a "richness" and depth of color that is unsurpassed by any other medium and many professionals will only use oil paints. More paintings are sold used oils.

Remember, you can't use soap and water to clean oil paints out of your brushes. It is best to soak them in some type of paint thinner, alcohol or special brush soap.

Want Less Cracking in Your Oil Painting? Fat Over Lean for oil painting - Fat over Lean refers to the oil painting principle that applying paint with a higher ratio of oil to color pigments OVER paint with a lower ratio of oil to color pigments can ensure a more flexible paint film that will not crack later on down the road when the paint dries and ages.

Jerry's Artarama has a wide variety of top selling oil paints on sale from only the best. We recommend to always use better oils when painting for the best outcome. We have several lines of exclusive, high quality oil colors, including Charvin Extra Fine Oil Colors, LUKAS 1862 Artist Oils Colors, Soho Urban Artist Oil Paints and many more artist preferred oils for your artwork.

Choose better quality at a better value of professional series oil paints for better results! Find all the art supplies you need at Jerry’s!

See our Guide on the: Best Oil Paints