I spent 14 days inside a castle, focusing on portrait painting and learning oil techniques from masters. Watch my journey ...

A one-day oil painting basics workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 22, at Teri Sweeney Studios in Gardnerville. Sweeney’s workshop will take students through the basics of oil ...

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 painting.