Oil Painting by Numbers The Masters Collection

These oil colours are unique in that they are easily mixed and cleaned up with water, so there is no need for solvents or linseed oil.

Unlike watercolour, oil colour can be opaquely – in other words, a light colour is capable of covering over a darker colour, if applied thickly enough. This means that oil colour is more forgiving than watercolour, because the artist can rectify mistakes and change areas of a picture that are not successful.